Habitat Restoration and Species Reintroduction
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The traditional cycle of hillside cultivation, starting with the clearing of forest, cultivation of bananas for 30 years followed by cassava for flour, yams and other crops ended with pastures planted for livestock. With increased banana plant diseases, low banana prices, and low beef prices, together with increased salaries and stricter labour laws, hillsides have been abandoned and pioneer forests are beginning to take over pasture land. As much as 10% of the forests of the basin today are made up of these abandoned areas.
As there has been much destruction of the areas aroung REGUA, there are several projects in place to return the landscape to its original form, primarily through forest planting and wetland creation.
The São José farm is an example ina case. It is a farm, now included in the REGUA reserve, that once held a large lowland wetland with rare species of trees, orchids and bromeliads. It was cut, drained and turned into pasture thirty years ago. REGUA wants to restore this special vegetation type and the surrounding 60 hectares of degenerated pasture and use it as an educational tool for primary schools and universities. Its objective is to serve as a demonstration project for the general public to be introduced to the environment, understand their relationship to the environment and finally learn to care for the environment.
R.E.G.U.A. (Reserva Ecologica de Guapi Assu)
BRAZIL - R.E.G.U.A. (Reserva Ecologica de Guapi Assu) protects one of the last stands of tropical rainforest left in the severely depleted Atlantic Rainforest (Mata Atlantica) in Brazil. REGUA is a non-governmental association with a mission to save the ...
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