Restoration Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing Landscape Connectivity under the New Brazilian Forest Act

Garcia, L. C.; Santos, Juliana Silveira dos; Matsumoto, Marcelo; Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire; Padovezi, Aurélio; Sparovek, Gerd; Hobbs, Richard J.

doi:10.4322/natcon.2013.028

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“…The recent changes in the Brazilian Environmental Legislation include (1) variation in the percentage of LRs required according to the size of the property considered, (2) reduction in PPA width and (3) consideration of PPAs as LRs (see table in Garcia et al 2013). If these changes remain in effect, the whole country might experience a decrease in restoration actions in years to come.…”

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Site Selection for Restoration Planning: A Protocol With Landscape and Legislation Based Alternatives

Gama¹,

Martensen²,

Ponzoni³

et al. 2013

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Selecting sites for ecological restoration is an imperative, although challenging task. We developed a spatially explicit model to support site design and prioritization towards ecological restoration. We considered seven distinct and flexible templates, two based on legislation requirements and five on landscape spatial parameters, such as corridor design, enhancements in patch size and shape, and proximity to larger sources areas, thus, with different resilience capacities. We tested the approach on two different scales of analysis: applying the legislation based templates in the Atlantic Plateau of São Paulo, which is part of the Atlantic Forest biome, and the landscape based templates in one of its sub-watersheds (~150,000 ha), and then calculated landscape indexes to compare the current forest configuration to the resulted simulated restored ones. We showed that our protocol is flexible, transparent and repeatable, thus, could help in decision making towards conservation management.

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Site Selection for Restoration Planning: A Protocol With Landscape and Legislation Based Alternatives

Gama¹,

Martensen²,

Ponzoni³

et al. 2013

NatCon

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“…Thus, in 1965, a revised version of the Forest Code was established (Law #4771/1965), which defined the areas where forests should be preserved-and in some cases restored-to maintain ecosystem services (Areas of Permanent Preservation). It also defined an additional minimum percentage of forest cover for each property (Legal Reserve), which could be used for sustainable timber harvesting [18]. However, weak environmental governance and the consequent poor compliance with the law hampered the effectiveness of the Forest Code as an instrument to reduce deforestation rates and to foster forest restoration in agricultural landscapes.…”

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Governing and Delivering a Biome-Wide Restoration Initiative: The Case of Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact in Brazil

Pinto

Melo

Tabarelli

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Abstract:In many human-modified tropical landscapes, biodiversity conservation and the provision of ecosystem services require large-scale restoration initiatives. Such initiatives must be able to augment the amount and the quality of remaining natural habitats. There is thus a growing need for long-term, multi-stakeholder and multi-purpose initiatives that result in multiple ecological and socioeconomic benefits at the biome scale. The Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact (AFRP) is a coalition of 260+ stakeholders, including governmental agencies, private sector, NGOs and research institutions, aimed at restoring 15 million ha of degraded and deforested lands by 2050. By articulating, and then integrating common interests, this initiative has allowed different sectors of society to implement an ambitious vision and create a forum for public and private concerns regarding forest restoration. The AFRP adopts a set of governance tools so multiple actors can implement key processes to achieve long-term and visionary restoration goals. Having overcome some initial challenges, AFRP now has to incorporate underrepresented stakeholders and enhance its efforts to make forest restoration more economically viable, including cases where restoration could be less expensive and profitable. The AFRP experience has resulted in many lessons learned, which can be shared to foster similar initiatives across tropical regions.

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“…Fortunately, restoration initiatives have received a growing financial support from both private and public sectors worldwide ( The need of the RR approach may be particularly relevant in the context of the recently enacted Brazilian Forest Act (see Garcia et al 2013). This new law has established the possibility to compensate LR outside the state where a private landholding is located.…”

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Restoration Reserves as Biodiversity Safeguards in Human-Modified Landscapes

Brancalion¹,

Melo²,

Tabarelli³

et al. 2013

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Restoration Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing Landscape Connectivity under the New Brazilian Forest Act

Cited by 39 publications

References 16 publications

Site Selection for Restoration Planning: A Protocol With Landscape and Legislation Based Alternatives

Site Selection for Restoration Planning: A Protocol With Landscape and Legislation Based Alternatives

Governing and Delivering a Biome-Wide Restoration Initiative: The Case of Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact in Brazil

Restoration Reserves as Biodiversity Safeguards in Human-Modified Landscapes

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