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19th of Mar, 2010 - An operation involving 10 officers of IBAMA (Brazilian environmental agency) that lasted two weeks arrested a land-grabber and stopped illegal and voracious logging opperations in southern Roraima. This was done following Projeto Puma's High Conservation Value Forest' (HCVF) assesment at Vale Verde, a FSC-certified forestry company. We have identified and reported these illegal activities to the national agency, while introducing the companies' environmental model to IBAMA. As a consequence, timber has become scarce in the area, and buyers are now having to purchase certified wood, reports the companies' forest engineer. 5th of Dec, 2009 - Back from the Amazonian rainforest of Peru with many records of jaguar and puma presence. A report is due soon.
19th
of Nov, 2009 - Police has dismantled a gang that was illegally
harvesting palm heart where Projeto Puma runs its jaguar project. 4th of Nov, 2009 - High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) assessment report delivered for a sustainable logging area in Roraima, in the Brazilian Amazons, and accepted by the GFA 's FSC auditing. Report soon to be available |
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What
specialists say about
our expeditions:
Brilliant concept, great implementation and impressive follow up. I know of several similar initiatives that attempt to bring together science and tourism, but they usually start and end at the experience that tourists gain during the trip.
Koustubh Sharma
Snow Leopard Trust - India
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Expeditions for everyone
Conservation expedition
in
the Atlantic Forest of Brazil
Jaguar
expedition
Rainforests of Brazil, South America
Scheduled for August and September 2010
Sumatran
tiger expedition
Rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia
Scheduled for March 2011
Activities: participate in research expeditions to track tigers (Indonesia) and jaguars (Brazil) • Help collect and organize data • Learn to navigate in the forest with Global Position System (GPS) and compass • Learn forest and animal ecology • Join and help local scientists and organizations
Scientific outcome: publications at local and international scientific journals with baseline information for habitat and species management, including Biotemas, Biodiversity and Conservation and Zoology in the Middle East. Participation in species' action plans.
Projeto Puma is supporting a network aimed to divulge and improve a new protocol for evaluation of areas with high conservation priority within forests managed for timber and non-timber products (High Conservation Value Forests- HCVF).
Research: Research on managed areas.
Services: Habitat evaluation • forest certification • Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
Scientific outcome: Accepted publication at Environmental Management - Mosaics of exotic forest plantations and native forests as habitat for pumas • HCVF reports.
Resource
management
and forest certification
High Conservation
Values (HCV) management
with community participation in the Amazons
Species'
and landscape-
level management
Management Plan for Sassafrás Biological Station
Conservation and management guidelines should be proposed at local level, taking into account particular conditions of each region.
Projeto Puma evaluates and proposes actions for species and protect area management.
Services: Research design and monitoring of landscape change • Management plans for protected areas • Environmental Consultancy.
Scientific outcome: Scientific publications at local journals Biotemas and Natureza & Conservação.
Projeto Puma has actively participated in lecturing at both graduation and post-graduation level.
It has established, in partnership with the University of Tablelands (UNIPLAC), a post-graduate course in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management.
Services: Lecturing and elaboration of graduation and post-graduation courses.
Scientific outcome: Local scientific publications in partnership with students, new post-graduate course in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management.
Higher education
University in southern
Brazil