None.ARPA is of the utmost importance for protecting the Amazon, but in order to develop this program, it was first necessary to define what to protect.To this end, the Brazilian Environment Ministry organized a major workshop in the Amazon at Makapa, in the state of Amapa.Dozens of NGOs and more than 200 researchers and specialists convened.In Makapa.They identified 385 priority areas for conservation of biodiversity in the Amazon.The biological data for each area were combined with information about development projects, demography, human occupation, the encroachment of deforestation and the risk of wildfires.Many of the areas chosen are of extreme importance.Based on studies, the Brazilian government drew up a broad ranging project for creating and consolidating protected areas in the Amazon.At the same time, it sought to establish partnerships to ensure the initiative would be viable.These actions led to Arfa, a Brazilian government program instituted by decree on August the 8th, 2002 and officially launched during Real Plus 10 in Johannesburg.ARPA is the outcome of a partnership between the Brazilian government, the World Bank, GEF, phone bill and WWF.Together they are to invest almost $400 million by the year 2012 to protect an area of the Amazon forest the size of Spain.The targets ARPA is to attain by 2012 R creating new integral protection areas in the Amazon in the form of national parks, biological reserves and ecological stations totaling 285,000 square kilometers.In the first phase of the program, 90,000 square kilometers of forest will be brought under protection by 2007, creating new areas for sustainable community use in the form of extractorist reserves and sustainable development reserves totalling 90,000 square kilometers by 2007.Consolidating all existing integral protection areas in the Amazon, such as the Zhou National Park, the Kabul Orange National Park, the Trombetas River Biological Reserve and the Anavillianas Ecological Station.By 2770, thousand square kilometers of existing areas will be consolidated, establishing for the first time in Brazil an endowment fund to finance the cost of running and protecting all these areas in the Amazon.Initially, ARPA partners are to put up $81,000,000 to develop the program.The ARPA program is the expression of the Brazilian government's policy for environment and sustainable development.As you send a component social ambiental El tamiche Levant premier pelo Brazil som Pais strategic.The guiding principles on which ARPA is based are decentralized management and local participation.State and municipal authorities, NGOs and local communities are empowered to influence the program's decision making process.ARPA's priority is to form integrated sets of protection areas of different categories wherever possible, establishing alongside each other national parks, extractorist reserves and other types of protection units.They will comprise a giant environmental patchwork that can provide more effective protection for currently neglected ECHO regions.This program is broad ranging, innovative, participatory, representative and feasible.Arpa's targets and qualities make it the largest ever joint action conservation drive for tropical forests.APA is already producing concrete results like the creation of the Tumukumaki Mountains National Park and the Amazon State of Amapa.Created on August 22nd, 2002, it covers an area of 38,800 square kilometers, making it the largest area of protected tropical forest in the world.It is a strategic area for preserving the Amazon forest.Over one year after the launching of ARPA, the Brazilian government has reached 1/3 of the goals established in its phase one, having declared a total 60,000 square kilometers in new protected areas.A program management committee has also been formed and installed, composed an equal partnership between state and civil society.In addition, financial resources have been mobilized to declare and consolidate priority areas.These efforts will certainly contribute towards Brazil's effort to control the deforestation of the Amazon and to ensure the conservation of its biodiversity.The.
ARPA: Amazon Region Protected Areas
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ARPA is of the utmost importance for protecting the Amazon, but in order to develop this program, it was first necessary to define what to protect.
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To this end, the Brazilian Environment Ministry organized a major workshop in the Amazon at Makapa, in the state of Amapa.
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Dozens of NGOs and more than 200 researchers and specialists convened.
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In Makapa.
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They identified 385 priority areas for conservation of biodiversity in the Amazon.
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The biological data for each area were combined with information about development projects, demography, human occupation, the encroachment of deforestation and the risk of wildfires.
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Many of the areas chosen are of extreme importance.
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Based on studies, the Brazilian government drew up a broad ranging project for creating and consolidating protected areas in the Amazon.
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At the same time, it sought to establish partnerships to ensure the initiative would be viable.
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These actions led to Arfa, a Brazilian government program instituted by decree on August the 8th, 2002 and officially launched during Real Plus 10 in Johannesburg.
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ARPA is the outcome of a partnership between the Brazilian government, the World Bank, GEF, phone bill and WWF.
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Together they are to invest almost $400 million by the year 2012 to protect an area of the Amazon forest the size of Spain.
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The targets ARPA is to attain by 2012 R creating new integral protection areas in the Amazon in the form of national parks, biological reserves and ecological stations totaling 285,000 square kilometers.
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In the first phase of the program, 90,000 square kilometers of forest will be brought under protection by 2007, creating new areas for sustainable community use in the form of extractorist reserves and sustainable development reserves totalling 90,000 square kilometers by 2007.
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Consolidating all existing integral protection areas in the Amazon, such as the Zhou National Park, the Kabul Orange National Park, the Trombetas River Biological Reserve and the Anavillianas Ecological Station.
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By 2770, thousand square kilometers of existing areas will be consolidated, establishing for the first time in Brazil an endowment fund to finance the cost of running and protecting all these areas in the Amazon.
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Initially, ARPA partners are to put up $81,000,000 to develop the program.
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The ARPA program is the expression of the Brazilian government's policy for environment and sustainable development.
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As you send a component social ambiental El tamiche Levant premier pelo Brazil som Pais strategic.
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The guiding principles on which ARPA is based are decentralized management and local participation.
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State and municipal authorities, NGOs and local communities are empowered to influence the program's decision making process.
0:04:57.72
ARPA's priority is to form integrated sets of protection areas of different categories wherever possible, establishing alongside each other national parks, extractorist reserves and other types of protection units.
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They will comprise a giant environmental patchwork that can provide more effective protection for currently neglected ECHO regions.
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This program is broad ranging, innovative, participatory, representative and feasible.
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Arpa's targets and qualities make it the largest ever joint action conservation drive for tropical forests.
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APA is already producing concrete results like the creation of the Tumukumaki Mountains National Park and the Amazon State of Amapa.
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Created on August 22nd, 2002, it covers an area of 38,800 square kilometers, making it the largest area of protected tropical forest in the world.
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It is a strategic area for preserving the Amazon forest.
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Over one year after the launching of ARPA, the Brazilian government has reached 1/3 of the goals established in its phase one, having declared a total 60,000 square kilometers in new protected areas.
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A program management committee has also been formed and installed, composed an equal partnership between state and civil society.
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In addition, financial resources have been mobilized to declare and consolidate priority areas.
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These efforts will certainly contribute towards Brazil's effort to control the deforestation of the Amazon and to ensure the conservation of its biodiversity.
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Title
ARPA: Amazon Region Protected Areas
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Description
Informational video about the ARPA program in Brazil to protect regions of the Amazon.
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Creator
Government of Brazil
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Date
2003
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30159295 - Brazil - Amazon Region Protected Areas.mp4
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