Public Consultation Process to Create Protected Areas: the State Forests in Pará, Brazilian Amazon
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Roberto Palmieri ; Silvia Kataoka ; Adalberto Veríssimo ; Ana Cristina Silva ; Paulo Altieri ; Ivelise Fiock
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Imaflora – Institute of Forest and Agricultural Certification and Management, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil / Imazon - Amazon Institute of People and Environment, Belém, Pará, Brazil / State Government of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil
The State Government of Pará, Imaflora and Imazon performed a public
consultation process to create the three State Forests in 2006, which
includes approximately 7.4 million hectares in the north of Para, in the
Brazilian Amazon. Further to complying with legal requirements, the main
objective was to involve the local stakeholders to verify the technical
studies, and strength of the relationship between government agencies
and local stakeholders, especially with communities that live within and
around the area.
The process consisted of three steps. First, we identified stakeholders.
Second, we met the stakeholders individually to provide information about
the proposal of the three State Forests and gathered new information about
the area and suggestions about the proposal. Finally, we promoted public
meetings with all the stakeholders to present the synthesis of the previous
meeting, and discuss the final proposal to define the limits of three State
Forests. The most important contribution to the proposal was identify and
exclude the Quilombolas’ territories (African descendents’ territories).
Transparency: spreading information about the State Forest by radio, TV,
newspaper and others ways of mass communication.
This process significantly contributed to improve the proposal in technical
terms, to guarantee the transparency of the process, and to solve conflicts,
which would be harder to face after the creation of the three State Forests.
Identifying the stakeholders.
Protected areas
Indigenous lands
Guyana
kaieteur National Park
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Suriname
Iwokrama Rainforest Reserve
French
Guiana
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200
Km
P. N. do Cabo Orange
T. I. Juminá
T. I. Galibi
Central Suriname
Nature Reserve
Upper Essequibo
Conservation Concession
North Rupununi Wetlands
T. I. Uaça
Kanu Mountains
Atlantic Ocean
Manoá/Pium
Tirio Lands
Manoá/Pium
Proposed Protected Areas
Potential Coservation Area
F. N.do Amapá
New River Triangle
Spaliwini Nature
Reserve
Southen Guyana proposed protected area
P. N. Montanhas do Tumucumaque
Wai Wai
R. B. do Lago
Piratuba
Parque Indígena
do Tumucumaque
T. I. Wai Wai
E.E. de Maracá
Jipioca
REBIO de Maicuru
F. N. Amapá
T. I. Waiapi
ESEC Grão-Pará
Amapá
T. I. Rio Paru D’ Este
R. D. S. do
Rio Iratapuru
T. I. Trombetas Mapuera
Promoting public meetings with all the stakeholders
A. P. A. Curiaú
T. I. Zo’é
F. E. Trombetas
F. E. Paru
E. E. Do Jai
R. Ex. Rio Cajari
T. I. Nhamundá-Mapuara
R. B. de Uatumã
F. E. Faro
F. N. Saracá-Taquiera
Brazil
P. E. Monte Alegre
A. P. A. de Presidente Figueiredo
Apa Paytuna
P. E. Nhamundá
Floe Rio Urubu
Amazonas
Contact Information:
Roberto Palmieri
Instituto de Manejo e Certificação
Florestal e Agrícola (IMAFLORA)
PO Box 411 - Zip Code 13400-970,
Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
Phone: +55 19 3414 4015
Email: [email protected]
Skype: roberto.palmieri2
website: www.imaflora.org
F. N. de Mulata
R.B. do Rio Trombetas
A. P. A. de Nhamundá
Pará
Rio Urubu
Support:
Specific meetings separately with each sector
The guide where we systematized our experience