By Ricardo Salles Hermanny | Project Leader
Dear Friends and colleagues,
Iddeia Institute participates in several initiatives whose main beneficiaries are the environment and society.
We are currently part of the AMÁVEL movement and we intend consorting benefits biodigester with the benefits of a native culture of our region.
Long before Cabral arrive here, the Indians called the Brazil of Pindorama - in Tupi-Guarani, "Land of the Palms". There was good: in many regions, one in four trees of the Atlantic Forest was a species of palm, the Juçara, typical of this biome.
One type of natural relationship, generous and helpful also explains this abundance: more than 60 species of animals - the toucan guan, tapirs to bats, lizards of the tanagers - eat the fruit of Juçara and spread their seeds through the forest.
Key species of the Atlantic Forest and less than a century very numerous, the Palm Juçara is currently on the Official List of Endangered Species. The reason: illegal extraction of your palm, with the sacrifice of the tree, even before it fruiting.
The Programa Amável – A Mata Atlântica Sustentável, ongoing for about four years in the Serrinha Alambari, municipality of Resende, RJ, aims to change this situation, repopulating the Atlantic Forest with Palm Juçara, restoring the status of this species originating and promoting their exploitation in a sustainable manner, from an environmental, social and economic perspective.
For this, we propose to do with Juçara Palm (Euterpe edulis) which Indians and riverside communities already do for some time with the Acai Palm (Euterpe oleracea) in the Amazon region: plant them and harvest their fruits, always sustainably.
Therefore, IDDEIA in partnership with Programa Amável – A Mata Atlântica Sustentável, we will provide seedlings and seeds Palm Juçara beneficiaries by the biodigester GlobalGiving program we participate here.
Count on you.
Best Regard
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