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ArticlePayments for environmental services integrated with the protection of biodiversity, water production and agroecology in the Paraíba Valley, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Nature's contribution to society is fundamental and people who contribute to its protection should be paid for that. This encourages farmers to engage in an ongoing process to transform land use into A sustainable process. Payment for ecosystem services is strategic to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss in the Atlantic Forest, an important global biodiversity hotspot. The objective of this article is to present the Atlantic Forest Connection Project, a government project in the State of São Paulo-Brazil, which aims to promote connectivity of forest remnants through public policies and payment for environmental services integrating protection of biodiversity,water production and agroecology. The Paraíba River Valley, located in the Paraíba Sul River basin, State of São Paulo, is one of the regions that benefit from this program. The region has 2,26 thousand inhabitants and the water produced supplies the metropolitan regions: Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The remaining vegetation of the Atlantic Forest is very fragmented, with extensive conserved areas, which limits the activity of fauna in addition to extensive cattle raising, which occupies about 50% of the productive areas in most municipalities. The Atlantic Forest Connection Project in the Paraíba Valley has actions in three directions: 1) investigation, management and monitoring (biodiversity and carbon), 2) restoration ecology in the Paraíba river basin, 3) sustainability of areas protected by law and actions for change the landscape matrix at the expense of the economic activities of farmers in conservation buffer zones. In this last action, farmers protect and restore the forest by converting their activities to a more sustainable land use and, in this way, they are compensated. In 2019, the payments for environmental services program benefited more than 700 farmers in 13 municipalities, and these payments helped to protect and restore approximately 20,718 hectares under the Atlantic Forest Biome. Keywords: Ecosystem Services, Payments for Environmental Services, Public Policy, Environmental Conservation, Biodiversity ID: 3624119 -
ArticleHydrological drought risk evaluation in context of climate-resilient water regulation, conservation and restoration of hydrographic basin biomes of Brazil
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Understanding the role of forests in the global sustainable development agenda as well as the context of critical environmental and socioeconomic issues related to climate change are relevant aspects for the present day. Water scarcity and ecosystem restoration are major challenges on a local and global scale. This article attempts to address the main aspects of integrated water resources management, climate change and sustainable development in Brazil in recent decades. It is a fact that we need tools for climate-resilient water management approaches for the diverse biomes of the world. An analysis of the current model of the water-climate-forest nexus and an analysis of the integration of policies and governance in Brazil are presented with an emphasis on aspects of water regulation, conservation and restoration of hydrographic basin biomes. In the last two decades, the Southeast and Northeast Brazil are experiencing one of its worst periods of severe drought. Multi-purpose uses reservoirs were constructed to alleviate water shortage problems via redistributing water resources with temporal variability and spatial heterogeneity. Thus, a resilient approach to drought risk management, including reservoir operation methodologies for water scarcity situations, considering reliability, vulnerability and resilience are presented. The applicability of multi-seasonal streamflow generation models for hydrological drought risk evaluation is discussed. Five cases studies of reservoir operation rules as mitigation and adaptation strategies for building a green and resilient future with forests and watershed basins, belonging to three important biomes (savanna, caatinga and Atlantic Forest) are showed: the cases of Paraíba do Sul hydrographic basin (Rio de Janeiro), Cantareira reservoirs system (São Paulo) and the São Francisco river basin systems, including the Interbasin Water Transfer – PISF Project, the Piancó-Piranhas-Açu river basin and the Bocaina reservoir watershed. Keywords: Adaptive and integrated management, Climate change, Economic development, Policies, Governance. ID: 3623987 -
ArticleBotanical exploration of Luzon Key biodiversity areas in the Philippines: Impact to biodiversity conservation
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.Conservation priority is essential to minimize biodiversity loss as it ensures that conservation action focuses on the species at the greatest risk of extinction and on the sites that are most important for their protection. The study presents the initial assessment of collected Philippine threatened species during the botanical exploration in selected key biodiversity areas (KBAs) in Luzon Island, Philippines. KBAs are critical habitats prioritized for conservation based on their vulnerability and replaceability. Initial results revealed a collection of germplasm comprising of 67 Philippine threatened plant species from six KBAs namely Mount Makiling Forest Reserve (Laguna), Quezon Protected Landscape (Quezon Area), Bicol National Park (Daet, Bicol), San Isidro, Narra (Palawan), Aurora State College of Technology (Baler, Aurora) and Batanes Protected Landscape (Basco, Batanes). Of these 67 Philippine threatened plant species, 10 species are critically endangered (CR), 8 species are endangered (EN), 32 species are vulnerable (VU), and 17 species are other threatened species (OTS). The presence of the threatened species in Luzon KBAs confirms a degree of vulnerability and irreplaceability and therefore should be prioritized for conservation. Conservation action and geographically specific strategies must be devised to protect the individual species and safeguard representative habitats in these KBAs. Keywords: conservation priority, threatened species, vulnerability, irreplaceability ID: 3623483
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