ECOLOGICAL CORRIDOR

We started this initiative with private landowners in the region in the State of Sao Paulo. The neighbours are located in the Morro Grande area (northeast) to the Jurupará State Park area (southwest).

Joint collaboration to keep preserving and hopefully restoring the fragmented areas of the Atlantic Forest.

• Joint fauna monitoring through camera traps.
• Strategy development to prevent Forest fragmentation.
• Extend the corridor to Paraná border.

We privately own this area of the Atlantic Forest which falls into the jurisdiction of legally preserved area by the Brazilian Government under the ”Proteção da Vegetação Nativa” (Protection of Native Vegetation) law number 12.651/2012. However, law reinforcement can be hard due to the sheer size of the areas under legal protection and because it is difficult build evidence or pursue legal accountability. This means, unfortunately, that many areas of the protected Atlantic Forest suffer continuous attacks, despite the legal protection.

There are three types of signs distributed in our land:

1. to warn any persons about trespassing a private property.
2. to warn that this area is monitored to protect the biodiversity.
3. to warn that hunting and logging is illegal.