Project document

V) Sustainable forest management: strategies that ensure less clearing, conservation practices, more biodiversity, connectivity among fragments, gene flows, more carbon stored, more income, community organization and empowerment.

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  Forest recovery intervention (can be applied in order to recover the forest potential use of a specific area and to recover ecosystem function of Legal Reserves and Areas of Permanent Preservation – associated to seedling strategies as bird perches for seed dispersion, protective fences implementation, etc);
  

- Tree crops for food products;

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  Collection of native seed for reforestation, including communitarian native seed banks;
  
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  Ecological lowering and thinning of foliage (rebaixamento e raleamento) (for fodder and native pasture management);
  
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  Enrichment with useful/commercial native species (direct seeding or nursery seedlings)
  
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  Non-timber management (f.ex. extraction/management and processing of native fruits -umbu, licuri, maracujá boi etc.)
  
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  Timber (woodland) management for fuelwood, charcoal, thin and thick fence posts (including reforestation activities);
  
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  Ecological corridors and stepping stones for connectivity (maintenance of biodiversity flows and ecosystems function);
  
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  Agroforestry/Agrosilvicultural-pastoral systems (less clearing and degradation, more biodiversity, more carbon storage, diversification of income).