Project facilitates registration of rural properties in north Brazil
The project, named “Inovacar”, will facilitate the registration of property in rural areas of nine states of the area known as Legal Amazon, and gather data for governments, researchers and the civil society.
CI-Brasil, the Brazilian branch of the NGO Conservation International, launched this Wednesday (Apr. 23) a project aimed at helping states and municipalities in the Amazon Rainforest region implement the Rural Environmental Registration, known in Portuguese as “CAR”. The project, named “Inovacar”, will facilitate the registration of property in rural areas of nine states of the area known as Legal Amazon, and gather data for governments, researchers and the civil society.
The region encompassed by Legal Amazon corresponds to the whole of the Brazilian states of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins, plus parts of Mato Grosso and Maranhão. The total space covered amounts to approximately 5,217,423 km² – 61% of the country’s territory.
The new Forest Code requires the registration in the National Rural Environmental Registration System (“SiCAR”) of all 5.6 million rural properties and holdings in Brazil. As soon as the federal government issues an official regulation, all properties will have to be registered in two years’ time.
Inovacar will give its support to the states and municipalities by means of a series of seminars in which environmental agencies from the region, along with the civil society, will be able to benefit from each other’s collective experience and previous initiatives that proved successful. According to CI-Brasil advisor Mauro Pires, the first workshop on the Rural Environmental Registration will take place in May, in Belém, capital city of Pará. Its goal will be to develop joint strategies for overcoming challenges in infrastructure, work force and technology necessary for registration.
In his view, the first stage includes the Amazon Rainforest region because it is one of the country’s areas most severely affected by deforestation, but he believes the next step is to carry out a project in other biomes. Learn more on www.inovacar.org.br, in Portuguese.
Studies conducted by Conservation International indicate that only a small number of states in the region have updated their legislation in an effort to adapt to the new demands from the Forest Code, among which Acre, Rondônia and Tocantins. Also, only Amazonas, Pará and Rondônia have the financial resources required to implement CAR.
Translated by Fabrício Ferreira
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