The National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) launched this Friday, (5), Amazon Day, the Xingu River Basin 2. Goal is to support up to six ecological restoration projects.
You Projects will be focused on restoration of areas located in conservation units; in permanent preservation areas (APP); in Legal Reserve (RL) in rural properties of up to four tax modules and agrarian reform settlements; and in indigenous, quilombola and other traditional communities. The engagement and participation of local communities and peoples need to be viewed as priority activities. THE Deadline for presentation of proposals ends at 18h on November 7th.
“We are launching this announcement on Amazonian Day, which is celebrated annually to draw attention to the importance of the largest tropical forest on the planet. It is another action that reinforces the protagonism of BNDES in promoting a new model of economic and socio -environmental development. Combining public and private resources, we can recover native vegetation and, at the same time, generate employment and income for communities,” said BNDES, alliizio, alihizio, Mercadante.
The Viva Forest has the purpose of forming partnerships to support ecological restoration in the various Brazilian biomes, with native species and agroforestry systems (SAFs). To date, about R $ 460 million have been mobilized, half of the funds from the BNDES Socio -Environmental Fund and the rest are resources from public and private partners.
The Brazilian Fund for Biodiversity (Funbio) acts as a partner manager of the Viva Forest. He is responsible for the organization of the edicts and receiving the funds from BNDES and the partners, with later transfer to the selected projects.
“By funding and enabling local projects, we are not just planting trees; we are strengthening the entire restoration chain – from native seed collectors to communities that will grow the forest. It is a national scale project with tangible local results,” says Funbio Superintendent Manoel Serrão.
Xingu River
With approximately 1,900 kilometers long, the Xingu River is born in the Cerrado and crosses a long length of the Amazon rainforest until it flows into the Amazon River. Your Basin occupies an area of approximately 53 million hectares. In this territory, which covers about 50 municipalities in the states of Mato Grosso and Pará, several indigenous lands and conservation units are present.
The first notice of Living forest dedicated to the Xingu River basin was released in 2023. At the time, four projects were selected totaling a total amount of R $ 20.3 million, leaving R $ 6.3 million in remaining resources. The new notice seeks to apply this amount.
“We are prioritizing projects that include proponents’ training initiatives and strengthening of productive chains. At least 50% of the resources foreseen in each proposal must be intended for ecological restoration activities,” said BNDES’s Socio -Environmental Director, Tereza Campello.
