| BJF Corridor-Mapping project | One of the first success cases for the Corridor | |
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Description of the term 'Biodiversity Corridor' Biodiversity Corridors are major regional planning units comprising a mosaic of land uses and conservation key areas. A corridor may be a patchwork of environmentally sustainable areas: parks, public or private reserves, indigenous lands, farmland and pasture, and even cities. The Araguaia River Biodiversity Corridor comprises the 1,900 km of the Araguaia River and 250 km of Tocantins River till the Tucuruí Dam (Pará State), plus a 20 km wide extension at each margin. In total, it covers an area of more than eight million hectares. Mapping the Corridor-zone It is essential to know which person or company owns the land in the Corridor-Zone, before they can be approached at all by the Corridor Alliance. It is one of BJF's task to map the entire corridor zone to identifify all the owners, in a user friendly system. The governments in Central Brazil do not have an efficient and professional system in place, to provide such a ‘list’. In the event that data is available, the names of Holdings-entities show up. Field-work and research is required to identify the persons or companies behind this data available. The Corridor Alliance realizes that intensive field-work needs to be carried out, to identify the owner of the land - hectare by hectare in case no data is available or not up-to-date. Once all the data is tracked and systemized, the next step in the process can only begin : to contact them and start the lobby- and education process to make them participant of the Araugaia Corridor. This phase or ''final process' will be carried out by JCF and IBAMA and other local partners. |
Below a pictogram dated April 2011, where a farmer/large landowner allocated 700HA back to original forest. It forms a critical link between Emas National Park and the very beginning of the Araguaia River Corridor. The area has been replanted with 111.658 indigenous plants and trees. From farmland to now ‘protected nature reserve’.  |
Below the aerial view of the 700 HA converted land into ‘Protected Natural Reserve’, linking
Emas Park with Araguaia River Corridor - April 2011. The area has been replanted with 111.658
indigenous plants and trees. From farmland to now ‘protected nature reserve’.
