Kevin Arnold - The Nature Conservancy · Brazil Annual Report 2016. 2016 Annual Report With special thanks to the dedication and ... sustainability and the mitigation of climate change

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Dear readers,

The environmental challenges the world faces have never been so great and complex. They make clear that the way we have been using natural resources and our choices regarding economic development generate an excess of greenhouse gases and are a

the planet.

Consequently, humanity faces great challenges ahead. We at The Nature Conservancy believe that nature-based solutions are critical to solving them.

the most impact on the environment to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy. Intensification of agriculture needs to happen without opening new natural areas. Infrastructure projects need to be planned and executed with minimal social and environmental impacts. Forest cover is vital to the preservation of water as is the commitment of the private sector to manage it

The planet we depend on depends on us.

We thank all our employees for their commitment and for another year of work. The Conservancy´s main 2016 conservation results in Brazil follow.

ENJOY YOUR READING!

Antonio Werneck,Executive Director of the Brazil Program

Dear,

It is with great satisfaction that I write for the opening pages of this report, which this year honors and highlights the contribution and impact that women have had on environmental conservation in Brazil.

Women embody Earth´s creative energy and have increasingly taken a primary role in their communities, leading actions that promote and nurture love and respect for the planet. Soon, we will be 9 billion people on Earth and that will increase the demand for a more fraternal division of water, food, energy and infrastructure.

Nevertheless, all too often women are denied access to resources and opportunities, their decision-making power is limited, and their knowledge and ideas discounted. A March 2017 unpublished research carried out by UN Women and the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics (IBOPE in Portuguese) revealed that three out of four Brazilians consider the involvement of public and political managers in the promotion of gender equality extremely import – 81 percent of women and 73 percent of men regarded equality in the labor market and access to education and culture as very or extremely important.

In the pages that follow you will read the testimonial of women who contribute to and are leaders in the development of environmental conservation projects in their communities. I invite everyone to reflect on the importance of female entrepreneurship and the impact women´s full participation generates to the conservation of nature - not only because it is good for women and their families, but because it is good for the planet and for business.

WARM REGARDS,

Ana Paula Chagas, Chairperson, Brazil Board of Directors

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Brazil Annual Report 2016

2016 Annual Report

With special thanks to the dedication and impact women have brought to conservation of nature!

Our mission Nature is indispensable to life and therefore we work to “conserve the lands and water on which all life depends”. That´s the mission of The Nature Conservancy.

The Conservancyin Brazil The Nature Conservancy has been in Brazil for 28 years and carries out conservation strategies in the main Brazilian biomes. Our goal is to bring together economic development and the conservation of natural ecosystems, and promote prosperity in local and traditional communities.

Our partnersWe work with more than 180 partners representing the three levels of government, private companies, Indigenous communities, multilateral institutions, NGOs, academia, rural associations and individuals. With offices in Belém, Brasília and São Paulo, the Conservancy has more than 100 employees throughout the country.

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Conservation GoalsWater

Create and manage water funds in 12 priority metropolitan regions. The funds will benefit 42 million people downstream and 46,000 rural producers upstreamproviding environmental services through the conservation and restoration of 450,000 hectares by 2020.

Agriculture

Cerrado and Amazon biomes by at least 50 percent when compared to business-as-usual projections.

Indigenous Peoples and Lands

Environmental and Territorial Management in Indigenous Lands (PNGATI) will promote the well-being of Indigenous Peoples and the conservation of 14.7 MtC (million tons) of CO2 stored in Indigenous lands and managed by communities.The Brazilian guidelines on good corporate practices with Indigenous peoples will be adopted by sectoral associations and companies from the hydroelectric, mining and agribusiness sectors by 2020. The guidelines will become a

between Indigenous groups and the private sector.

InfrastructurePlay a role in ensuring that large investments in energy, mining and logistics are strategically evaluated from the point of view of their cumulative impacts. This evaluation should be based on a shared vision of the future of the basin vis-a-vis these impacts, having as a guideline the sequential logic of the mitigation hierarchy to avoid, compensate or mitigate impacts.

Restoration of Native VegetationDevelop large-scale projects to restore native vegetation in priority areas to increase green infrastructure in Brazil, aiming at the production of quality water, agricultural sustainability and the mitigation of climate change. All these actions will help the Brazilian government reach its goal to restore 12.5 million hectares (NDC).

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Bringing Water Funds to scale

Environmental and Territorial Management in Indigenous Lands

Integrated Management of Tapajós Basin

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The Green-Blue Water Coalition has reached the end of its 1st year with a pre-competitive collective action, and it is already acting in 50% of the 12 Brazilian metropolitan regions subject to water risk. The Coalition enabled us to move forward from four to six regions. The two new ones, Curitiba and Belo Horizonte have now been added to São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, the Federal District and Espírito Santo. Some of the results achieved in these regions in 2016 are presented below:

Rio de Janeiro: approval of the Guandu Committee Pluriannual Application Plan (2017-2020), with R$ 26 million allocated to green infrastructure. The support provided by Ambev enabled us to extend the actions to the municipalities of Mendes, Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin, in the Guandu river basin, and Resende in the Paraíba do Sul basin.Federal District: signature of the technical cooperation agreement towards program implementation in the hydrographic basin of Descoberto river (Federal District main source of water, accounting for water supply to 65% of the regional population).São Paulo: Collective action in practice. In the basins of Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaí river (PC J), TNC, Ambev, Coca- Cola, FEMSA and the FEMSA Foundation

implementation of basin conservation and restoration actions. With their investments in water resources management, these companies are contributing to increase basin protection, public administration involvement and the engagement of local authorities. In PCJ basins, comprising the Cantareira and Alto Tietê systems, six key municipalities for water conservation have joined the Coalition. Namely, Mogi das Cruzes, Camanducaia, Paraisópolis, Itapeva, Sapucaí-Mirim and Toledo. Working with municipal city halls we are identifying the priority areas and involving rural producers in actions related at the conservation and restoration of their farms.Minas Gerais: TNC supported the establishment of the Extrema (MG) Water Conservation Program Reference Center, which plays a strategic role in education and knowledge dissemination actions in municipalities and among other key players, who are instrumental to the initiatives related to ecological service projects in the region, besides the support to scientific research and environmental monitoring, as provided, for example, to the 280 municipalities of Mantiqueira.

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“Since I was a child, I have always been very sympathetic to the environmental cause, but I decided early on that I wanted to study exact sciences because it was an easy field for me and because I was a great admirer of my father´s work; he is an industrial engineer. But it was when I was in the 8th grade and a teacher told us about the ECO ´92 conference that the environment caught my attention. I fell in love with environmental engineering because it unites exact sciences and humanities and that allows me to work on the environment and on the social aspects connected to it. In 2004, I took and passed the civil servant exam to work for the Jaguariúna municipality because I had to pay for my college education.I started in the administrative department, in the taxation area, and after I graduated from college, I transferred to the city’s Environmental Agency, which meant I could work in my field of study. At the end of 2010, I became a department director. Meeting the goals of the agency gives me great satisfaction because they are for the greater good. My family lives in this area and benefits from it. And now that I am pregnant, I feel that my daughter will also benefit in the future. I got to know the Conservancy better when they came to us with Ambev and the Mata Ciliar Association to implement a possible project that originated the Bacias-Jaguariúna program. But it was at the Conservancy´s water funds event in Colombia that I understood the magnitude of the projects, and I was delighted.I think the Conservancy is projects are excellent, very high-quality and with a serious and committed team behind them. Right now, water security is the word, and projects that strengthen green infrastructure are increasingly known to be important because they supply water to people. Water is a fundamental condition of any development. Projects such as the Water Producer aid municipalities in achieving their ecological restoration goals and help land owners comply with environmental law, all with the assistance of a qualified team. I always say that taking our experience to other municipalities is vital because without the partnerships, local governments would not be able to execute such a program by themselves. The Conservancy provided technical support and helped us find partners and resources. A

region that I love.”

Rafaela Freitas,Director of Agriculture and Environmental Department of the Jaguariúna Municipality´s Environmental Agency (São Paulo state).

Rafaela Freitas is a civil servant and director of Environmental Agency of the Municipality of Jaguariúna, which is one of many municipalities that have joined The Green Blue Water Coalition iniciative. Her passion and her commitment to the environment have turned the Jaguariúna Basins program success case and encourages the engagement of other important municipalities. Currently, 80% of the Brazilian population lives in cities. The supply of drinking water to these millions of inhabitants stands as a major challenge: most of the large cities are already facing water stress. The objective of The Green-BlueWater Coalition is to foster joint e�orts in the search for water security in 12 di�erent Brazilian metropolitan regions subject to water risk and where the implementation of green infrastructure could generate the highest impact.

Water is the fundamental premise in any type of

development. I am happy to make a di�erence in the

lives of residents, to the town that I love and to the

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TNC invested to develop environmental management skills in the municipalities where it is present, making available, to local city halls, at no cost, a territorial management platform named Municipal Environmental Portal (PAM). This is a web-based platform with a spatial database that allows and facilitates territory and environmental management by the municipalities and the engagement of rural landowners in water projects. PAM’s are now being implemented for the PCJ (SP/ MG), Guandu (RJ), Paraíba do Sul (SP/RJ), Alto Tietê (headwaters), Camboriú (SC) and Pipiripau (DF) basins.

TNC and the network of researchers of the Extrema Water Conservation project, a partnership between universities, research centers, National Water Agency TNC, have improved the hydrological, forest and climate monitoring system by installing telemetry stations designed to collect and transmit data every 15 minutes. TNC implements monitoring models in several regions of the state of São Paulo, in Camboriú (SC) and in Rio de Janeiro, regions where Coalition initiatives are in place.

With support from Grupo Falconi, TNC revised and improved the key performance indicators (KPI) and the impact indicators (Ki), the internal and external governance mechanisms and the follow-up of Coalition’s projects in the next 10 years. The goal is to add clarity to papers, annual and general results, to monitoring and transparency.

TNC completed the analysis of Camboriú River Water Producer project return on investment, is a partnership between TNC Brasil, its global science team, Stanford University specialists and local partners of the State of Santa Catarina Environmental and Hydrometeorology Information Center. The results of this study, the most detailed water project ever, provided inputs to State of Santa Catarina Public Services Regulator (Aresc) to add the cost of the conservation of sources to state water

replication of this mechanism to other regulators, such as, Adasa, in the Federal District and Arsesp, in São Paulo.

TNC executed a cooperation agreement with the Extrema Environmental Agency, WRI, IUCN and the Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica to expand the Extrema Waters Conservation project (MG) to 280 municipalities, with forest restoration potential, encompassing 1.2 million hectares representing about 10% of the target undertaken by Brazil at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21). The ten years of field experience in Extrema (MG), of which TNC has been a partner since the beginning, motivated the creation of this strategic plan for all the influence region of Serra da Mantiqueira.

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“My father dreamed of building something big to leave his children. He was brave enough to leave behind his comfortable home, his family and everything else to come here. There was nothing here, just the forest. At that time, there was much incentive from the government to settle in and develop the Amazon. My father and my mother left their blood, sweat and tears on this land, most of all my father’s. When he got sick, I started to take care of the farm. Today I am the manager of the large Bituva farm, which is part of the Do Campo à Mesa, a sustainable livestock breeding project coordinated by The Nature Conservancy (TNC). I’m also the President of the Rural Association of Producers. When TNC arrived here, people thought they were just “environmentalists” who came to limit our freedom in the farms, so we were not very receptive.Today, our views of TNC have changed completely. We support and believe in sustainable livestock breeding. TNC showed clearly to all of us that there’s no place in the world where you need to cut down a single tree to increase the production of grain, beef or anything else. The initiative brought about many benefits to the region, not just to the environment and agricultural production, but also to society. The arrival of TNC served to increase our awareness of what we are going to leave to future generations. Because, if we allow deforestation to continue everywhere, what are we leaving to the future? We are segregating the sources and letting the forest recover around them. Forests on top of the hills are now being protected and recovered as a way of preventing erosion. Instead of a big villain, livestock breeding and agriculture are now sequestering carbon, which is one of main global concerns. You can engage in sustainable agriculture communing with nature. When you work hand in hand with specialists, you can make your dreams come true, and this is just the beginning. There’s still much for us to do. We will not be the only ones to gain from that. There’s much to be gained by everybody.”

Solange Reusing,FarmerSão Félix do Xingu, Pará

Solange Reusing is one of the many rural landowners, livestock breeders and community leaders engaged in TNC’s sustainable production initiatives. Nature conservation would never happen without the dedication and leadership of people like her. While we are walking towards a 9 billion people global population, it is imperative to show how we can produce food more efficiently, while at the same time protecting nature. Through initiatives such as the Do Campo à Mesa, we are estimating that Brazilian farmers and cattle breeders saved over 85,000 km2 of forest from deforestation.

There’s no place in the world where you need to cut down a

single tree to increase production of grains, beef or anything else.

In supermarkets, consumers had access to the Rebanho Xingu meat brand, which means it is traced from breeding, without Amazon deforestation and environmental tlivestock breeding project named Do Campo à Mesa. In association with Marfrig and Walmart, and counting on support from the Moore Foundation, among other organizations, Do Campo à Mesa developed the municipality of São Félix do Xingu (PA), the municipality with the largest beef cattle herd in Brazil. The objective of this project, that was launched in 2013, is to implement good agricultural, animal wellfare and environmental conservation practices in cattle breeding farms in the Amazon, with cattle traced from farm to supermarket.

In partnership with the Roncador Group and support from the Sustainable Trade initiative (IDH), TNC launched the Campos do Araguaia project, whose goal is to further sustainable livestock breeding, with environmental adjustment actions and restoration in 50 rural properties in nine municipalities of the Médio Vale do Araguaia, in MatoGrosso. The project includes TNC’s sustainable livestock breeding initiative Do Campo à Mesa, initiated in São Félixdo Xingo(P A). Campos do Araguaia is fully aligned to the targets of the Produce, Preserve and Include Program (PCI), spearheaded by the state of Mato Grosso, and launched during the Paris Climate Conference (COP21).

With support from Bunge, TNC developed two municipal portals (PAM) for the municipalities of Itaituba and Trairão, in Pará. In Itaituba, the project was launched in association with Municipal Environmental Agency (Semma). Training was provided to 17 local technicians (Semmas de Itaituba and Trairão, Emater and IFPA) on how to use the PAM, aiming at local qualification to support the environmental regularization of rural properties, deforestation monitoring and control in these municipalities.

Training was provided to approximately 500 participants, comprising rural producers from ten municipalities, including Lucas do Rio Verde, Nova Mutum, Sapezal and Campos de Júlio (MT) focusing on principles, laws, standards and guidelines for compliance with the Forest Code, and concepts of rural environmental registry, the environmental regularization program, forest restoration and regularization of the legal reserve. This action is a component of the partnership between TNC, Abiove and Aprosoja in the Sojaplus initiative.

TNC headed the establishment of a work group formed by members of NGOs, companies,

a Decision Support System (SS) for agriculture planning and expansion, with special emphasis on soy, employing more sustainable practices. Five workshops were held, bringing together 41 specialists from the 17 partner institutions, to define issues related to expansion planning, spatial information and useful tools for decision making. This process led to a prototype of an online platform to evaluate, in practice, how to create scenarios for sustainable expansion – which will result in version 1.0 of the system.

Almost 5 million hectares of rural properties were mapped the in west of Bahia, one of the most important regions for the forward movement of the agricultural frontier in the state. In association with ADM,TNC mapped 1.1 million hectares in the municipality of Correntina and, with Bunge, another 3.3 million hectares were mapped in the municipalities of Luís Eduardo Magalhães, São Desidério and Formosa do Rio Preto.TNC also developed the Municipal Environmental Portal (PAM) for the region, a tool for landscape analysiswith a web-based georeferenced database, that makes environmental and territorialmanagement by the municipalities easier and facilitates access to rural landowners, thus contributing to reduce deforestation in the Cerrado.

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“My Indigenous name is Yandara, my people are the Baré, from the Alto Rio Negro Indigenous Peoples Land (AM). I come from a family of many women, I always followed my mother to the discussions for Indigenous rights. This fight is in my blood. In 2001, I went to Manaus and joined the movement of Indigenous students in the state of Amazonas (MeiAM). Later on, I was a student at the Centro Ambiental de Formação Indígena (Cafi) that was critical to the process of preparing young tribe members for political battle, for the fight for dialogue, political confrontation and to obtain technical knowledge. In 2009 I joined the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations in the Brazilian Amazon (Coiab) as a technical associate and, soon after, I started working in the administrative-finance department. However, it was in 2013, at one of the assemblies, that the Indigenous delegates of the Amazon launched my candidacy for

partner and it supports us in all processes. When I talk about support, I do not mean just financial support, I’m talking about a full partnership in the processes of education, institutional and community strengthening, political negotiation, demarcation of land, knowledge exchanges and in the discussions and definition of the National Indigenous Environmental and Territorial Management (PNGATI). If not for TNC support to pro Indigenous movement, all this would never been possible. Today I can see how much the Indigenous women fought for much needed empowerment and to be able to take part in the decision making dialogues and processes. Women played a leading role. Women are life givers, we take care of our homes, plots, our children and seeds, we have this knowledge and we know when

Men came to realize the importance of women’s traditional knowledge. I believe we have a special way of being, caring more for wellbeing, we have the worldview. We are not here to dispute, but to unify, to add and to stay.”

Francinara Soares (Nara)COIAB Treasurer Cordinator

Francinara Soares is one of the most influential Indigenous leaders in the Brazilian Amazon, both for the administrative-financial processes of the Coiab and for the empowerment of Indigenous women. Since 2000, TNC has been working directly with Indigenous Peoples and organizations in the Amazon, in the states of Amapá, Pará and Roraima, providing support to the design and development of public policies, with the PNGATI as the highlight, to the implementation of environmental and territorial management plans for the Indigenous Peoples Lands, to the strengthening of Indigenous people and government capabilities and encouraging the dialogue between companies and the Indigenous Peoples.

One hundred and twenty Indigenous environmental agents started to attend training in the implementation of Territorial and Environmental Management Plans (PGTAs) in the Waiãpi Indigenous Peoples lands, Oiapoque (AP), Apiterewa and Trincheira-Bacajá (PA) and Paresi (MT). The PGTA is a tool used as part of the implementation of the National Indigenous Peoples Lands Environmental and Territorial Management Policy (PNGATI), whose implementation TNC supports together with FUNAI.

TNC supported the development of a tool that uses the i-Tracker software to monitor the environment and threats to the Indigenous peoples lands, which is already used by native peoples in Australia and Canada, as part of the Territorial and Environmental Management Plans (PGTA). The tool is developed jointly with technicians and leaders of each Indigenous people, as it requires the definition of protocols for internal access, protection and sharing of the information collected by the application, besides a teaching plan for training on how to operate it.

TNC supported the physical set up fo the Technical Nuclei of the PGTAS in the Wajãpi Indigenous land, Uaçá Indigenous land in the Oiapoque and at Funai headquarters in Altamira. The main functions of these technical nuclei are to handle and coordinate the local institutional arrangements for PGTA implementation local institutional arrangements, seeing to improved adoption by tribe members and partners, such as Funai and federal, state and municipal agencies. The institutional arrangement is an important and specific component for each Indigenous land and is designed to enable

GA implementation.

TNC and Funai renewed their technical cooperation agreement for another period of four years, from 2016 to 2020, in order to reinforce and implement government environmental policies and ethnodevelopment in Indigenous peoples lands. An assessment was carried out of the activities developed in the Indigenous Peoples Lands in the last four years.

Two Indigenous institutions prepared the institutional strengthening plans jointly with TNC. The Wajãpi Earth, Environment and Culture Association (AWATAC), also executed a technical cooperation agreement with TNC whose goal is to speed up the progress of activities, and the Women’s Joint Work Association (AMIM), that was selected to represent the Oiapoque Indigenous Peoples. The AMIM is the sole formal multi-ethnicity Indigenous organization in the O iapoque representing four Indigenous peoples - Karipuna, Palikur, Galibi Marworno and Galibi Kali’na.

800 people from the Karipuna, Palikur, Galibi Kalinã and Galibi Marworno Indigenous peoples took part in eight surveillance expeditions to strategic areas of the Indigenous lands and cleaned trails and rivers. The actions are part of the Oiapoque PGTA.

Thirty technical business Indigenous peoples leaders from all the Brazilian regions attended qualification courses on dialogue and relationship between companies and Indigenous peoples in Brazil and the application of corporate good practices with the Indigenous Peoples.

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“I am a biologist, and since my graduation I have been working with conservation-related subjects. I started studying the black-faced lion tamarin (mico leão preto) at Morro do Diabo State Park (SP), where part of the area would be flooded for the Rosana hydroelectric plant. My Master’s thesis was also about a primate (Mico argentatus) in Alter do Chão, in Santarém (PA), seeking to understand how this species uses the space and the environments to support the design of conservation areas. In 1993 I went to Mamirauá with the first research team, where I was responsible for timber exploitation studies. It was there that I started to take a more objective approach to the information needed to propose a zoning plan and how to promote a more sustainable use of resources, especially timber. I got my PhD from Inpa, aiming at deeper understanding of the issues related to zoning of sustainable use areas and the interfaces between conservation and use. Alter do Chão, in Santarém (Pará) was the selected area. It was during my PhD, in a term in Australia, that I had my first contact with the decision support-systems for conservation.Working at Goeldi since 2002, I was appointed to coordinate the partnership with TNC on behalf of the Museum whose purpose was a deeper vision of the future for the Tapajós Basin, precisely because I had already worked in the region of Santarém and coordinated projects that involved both natural and social sciences. The joint work with TNC at the Tapajós Basin is an opportunity to work with a more functional territorial unit, and to try to find opportunities for conservation and maintenance of ecosystem services in this enormous amount of investments in infrastructure in the region, which include ports, hydroelectric plants, roads and waterways. Additionally, the Tapajós project may help us to design a model to deal with infrastructure projects in other Amazon areas.”

Dr. Ana Luisa Mangabeira AlbernazResearcher at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

Dr. Ana Luisa Mangabeira Albernaz was appointed by Museum Goeldi, a world reference for knowledge on Amazon anthropology and knowledge, to coordinate the partnership with TNC for an in depth view of a shared future for the Tapajós Basin. With over 50 million hectares, the Tapajós Basin is today one of the most important watersheds in the country for hydroelectrical power, mining and logistics development for grain exports, with potential impact on the advance of regional farming frontier and also for protection of biodiversity, water resources and Indigenous peoples. This vision of the future aims at the establishment of criteria to deal with the cumulative and synergistic impacts of the ventures, and to serve as guides to the sustainability of government policies and definition of limits to regional development.

The process of continuous validation and improvement of the Tapajós river basin blueprint, encompassing over 50 million hectares, was one of the highlights of TNC’s actions in 2016. An important step in blueprint implementation was the establishment of the technical cooperation with Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. This cooperation will enable us to link the blueprint to flora and fauna distribution along the Tapajós river basin. The blueprint for Tapajós water conservation has an underlying spatial vision of the future, in which, for the purposes of conservation, restoration or good agricultural practices, we have highlighted the microbasins that best contribute to maintain the biological process of the basin as a whole.

TNC entered into an important five-year technical cooperation agreement with Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), whose main goals are to promote the process of validation and use of the Tapajós blueprint and contribute to improve the accomplishment of the environmental compensations and management of the Conservation Units in the region.

TNC prepared a participative socio-economic and cultural diagnostic for Enseada do Malato, Marajó Archipelago, in Pará, whose purpose was to understand the way of life of the local communities and analyze the feasibility of the sustainable implementation of a river-sea terminal in the region. Requested by the Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), the diagnostic identified and underlined elements that will be used as inputs to the analysis of a possible implementation of a private port terminal (TuP) at Enseada do Malato. The study presents the perceptions and the expectations of the local population that will enable IDC to assess the sustainable feasibility of its project, according to the data collected in the community that could be directly or indirectly impacted if the venture is actually implemented.

TNC prepared a socio-environmental diagnostic of the impacts related to the construction of the railway (Ferrogrão) connecting the municipality of Sinop (MT) to Itaituba (PA), commissioned by Estação da Luz Participações Ltda. (EDlP), to identify the vulnerabilities, restrictions and environmental potential of railway route, enabling an

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“I can’t remember a time when I was not working the field with my father, and nothing has changed today. For us women, this is a big challenge. I first came to Pará in 1992, we went through many highs and lows because my family was very poor, but we managed to go on and managed to get a little plot to farm. My husband died when I was 25, and I was left with two daughters and a nephew to care for. It was very hard because people kept telling me I had to sell my land, because as a woman I wouldn’t be able to work the land alone. Many people think a woman’s place is at the stove, in the kitchen. In fact, a woman’s place is where she feels good, where she finds her inner self and where she loves to work. Yet, I’m stubborn and had some education, so I thought I would go on doing what I always did, working the land, in the woods, smelling the odor of cattle. I decided I was not going to sell my plot of land.

good for the environment, but I didn’t know how to start. Then I discovered TNC. TNC came with the idea that human beings do not live just from pasture and cattle, but also from planting, with arduous but dignified work, work carried out with love. We were not encouraged to plant, because people said nothing would grow on our land, that it was not good, old and degraded land good only for grass. TNC challenged us to check how much our land would produce and proved people were wrong. Today we are producing cocoa, among other things, we manage our cattle, with a lot of s u c c e s s . T o d a y I l o o k a t m y l a n d a n d s e e t h a t t h e w a t e r springs are back, despite the big drought last year. We are grateful, because, without TNC, we would only be degrading, destroying more and more. And, yes, women have a critical role to play, especially in family farming.”

Valcilene dos Santos PrimoCéu Azul farm, in the Tancredo Neves settlement project (PA), São Félix do Xingu (PA)

Valcilene dos Santos Primo is a member of one of the 100 families who joined TNC’s Cacau Floresta project, a trail blazing initiative whose goal is to increase cocoa production in agroforestry systems (SAFs) in family farming, aiming at encouraging income generation and improvement of the lives of families, consistently with Brazilian Amazon protection and restoration actions. Family farming answers for 30% of Amazon deforestation, and cocoa farming in agroforestry systems is an interesting alternative to deforestation that also promotes forest restoration. The objective of the initiative is to work with one thousand families, covering a 5,000 hectares area by 2020.

Many people think a woman’s place is at the stove, in the kitchen...

In fact, a woman’s place is where she feels good,

where she finds her inner self and where she

loves to work.

Over 1 million trees are growing in the Atlantic Forest as a result of TNC’s initiative Plant a Billion Trees in the Atlantic Forest. Since the project was first started in 2008, 35 million trees were restored and are now monitored in the states of Paraná, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and Bahia. As part of the initiative, over 1,600 people have already been provided training in forest restoration techniques. The Plant a Billion Trees campaign has reached the Cerrado, covering the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.

Two Strategic Forest Restoration Plans (Perf ) were designed to understand the bottlenecks and links, and to foster restoration production chain in strategic regions of Mato Grosso and Espírito Santo. Both states assumed and announced their recovery commitments at the Climate Conference (COP21), in Paris.

TNC, partners and the Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture supported the design of a National Policy for Native Vegetation Restoration,

January of 2017, which, among other actions, will define the National Restoration Plan that will guide the steps towards large scale restoration in Brazil.

In 2016, TNC became the leader of the Restoration Economy Working (WG) , which is part of the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact that has developed relevant strategies targeting the development of restoration models for economic purposes. The main purpose here is to foster job and income generation from restoration activities, furthering the involvement of rural producers and investors, aiming at providing scale to the restoration areas.

TNC has been working with the states of Bahia and Pará towards the development, implementation and dissemination of the Environmental Regularization Program (PRA). In Pará, we also support the development of individual Plans for Environmental Restoration of Degraded Areas (PRADAs) at property level. In Mato Grosso, we support the design of individual restoration projects, to have them ready at the time of the regularization of the PRADAs in the state.

Over two million seeds are now processed by the Executive Commission of the Cocoa Farming Plan (Ceplac), in partnership with TNC and its Cocoa Forest project. All together, 3 million seeds and seedlings are available for cocoa family farming in the southeast of Pará.

In 2016, more than 18 families joined us, totaling 100 families of farmers taking part in the Cocoa Forest project, in São Félix do Xingu (PA), working in the restoration of 400 hectares of cocoa farming in agroforestry systems (SAf ).

The Cocoa Forest initiative was launched by TNC once it had completed the More Sustainable Cocoa pilot project, whereby units were implemented demonstrating cocoa farming in agroforestry systems in the south of Pará. The first harvest took place in 2016, demonstrating not just the technical and economic feasibility of the initiative, but also the potential for gains of scale in production, in order to reach the target of 5,000 hectares by 2020.

Thirty agriculture technicians from the target municipalities – São Félix do Xingu, Tucumã, Ourilândia do Norte e Novo Repartimento, in Pará – were provided training in the implementation of new cocoa farming in agroforestry systems, environmental adjustment of rural properties and good cocoa farming practices.

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Publications

Paper written by TNC scientists, in collaboration with dow Chemical, published in Science advances, discussing the economic return from conservation and landscape-level mitigation. Full paper available at:http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/7/e1501021

Paper written by TNC scientists, with Cargill, published in Biological Conservation, discussing the impacts of deforestation on flow, on the quality of habitats and on the aquatic connectivity of rivers and igarapés (small rivers) in the Brazilian amazon. Full paper available at:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/1/158/pdf

Counting on support from Bunge, aiba and abiove, TNC published, the guide to good agricultural Practices and Water, with the description of 14 techniques and procedures to minimize agriculture impact on soil and water in rural properties in the west of Bahia. Full paper available at:http://www.nature.org/media/brasil/oeste-bahia.pdf

Bigger is Better: improved nature conservation and

economic returns from landscape-level mitigation

Deforestation facilitates widespread stream habitat

and flow alteration in the Brazilian Amazon

Guide to Good Agricultural Practices

and Water

Paper written by TNC and agrosuisse scientists, published in the journal Sustainability, discussing how moderate intensification of livestock breeding in the amazon can be an effective solution to reduce the deforestation resulting from this activity, and also increase the socio-economic benefits deriving from it. Full document available at:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/1/158

Costs, benefits and challenges of sustainable

livestock intensification in a major deforestation frontier

in the Brazilian Amazon

This publication presents a mapping of restoration production chain and its connections and proposals for organized restoration in these regions on a business and innovation point of view. Full document available at:https://www.nature.org/media/brasil/perf_teles_pires.pdf

Strategic Plan for Forest Restoration in the Regions

of Alto Teles Pires and Alto Juruena (Perf-MT)

The guide was developed by agroícone with support from TNC, aprosoja and abiove and intended to support awareness building and advice on the environmental adjustment of rural producers as part of the project in the state of Mato grosso. Full guide available at:http://www.inputbrasil.org/publicacoes/guia-pra-programa-de-regularizacao-ambiental-no-mato-grosso/

Pocket Guide to the PRA – Environmental

Regularization Program

Paper written by TNC scientists, in collaboration with dow Chemical, published in Biological Conservation, discussing tools to optimize land use decision making, to sustain agricultural profits, biodiversity and ecosystem services. Full paper available at:http://www.sciencedirect .com/science/art ic le/pi i/S0006320716306966

Optimizing land use decision making to sustain

Brazilian agricultural profits, biodiversity and

ecosystem services

This handbook and guide were produced by TNC to facilitate the environmental diagnostic, guide the design of native vegetation restoration projects and to further the success of restoration actions in the region. Full document available at:http://www.nature.org/media/brasil/cartilha-restauracao-mt.pdfhttp://www.nature.org/media/brasil/manual-restauracao-mt.pdf

Forest Restoration Handbook and Guide for the Region of Alto Teles

Pires (MT)

By producing this guide TNC intended to facilitate the identification of species in the field and offer guidance to the development of native vegetation restoration projects, collection of seeds and production of seedlings of native species to further the success of vegetation restoration actions in the region. Full document available at:http://www.nature.org/media/brasil/guia-mt.pdf

Guide to the Identification of Key

Species for Forest Restoration in the region of Alto Teles Pires (MT)

Tapajós Blueprint study was developed to generate a spatial vision of Tapajós watershed’s future aiming to conciliate conservation and regional development. The study indicated the smaller watersheds that best contribute to the maintenance of the hydrological process of the entire basin. Full document available at:http://www.tnc.org.br/nossas-iniciativas/infraestrutura/blueprint-tapajos-portugues.pdf

Building a vision to Amazon´s future –

Tapajós´s Blueprint case

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