Cazumbá-Iracema Extractive Reserve in Acre receives course from the Rio Botanical Garden

The third edition of the course Monitora Program - forest component: basic and advanced plant protocol is taking place this month in the Extractive Reserve (Resex) Cazumbá-Iracema, in Acre. The course, organized by the Garden School program, of the National School of Tropical Botany of the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro (ENBT/JBRJ), serves 16 students from various institutions or communities: community members of the Resex Cazumbá-Iracema and the São Luís do Remanso agroextractivist settlement project, the Federal University of Acre (UFAC), ICMbio - Núcleo de Gestão Integrada (NGI) Arapixi (Resex Arapixi, Flona Purus and Flona Pauini Mapia), NGI Sena Madureira (Resex Cazumbá-Iracema, Flona Macauã and Flona São Francisco) and NGI Chico Mendes (Resex Chico Mendes and Area of Relevant Ecological Interest (ARIE) Seringal Nova Esperança).

This course and another that will take place until June this year in Rondônia have the support of the GEF Project Sustainable Landscapes of the Amazon, coordinated by the Ministry of Environment. To carry out the activities, the Botanical Garden has the partnership of teams from ICMBio, IBAMA, Brazilian Forest Service, Federal University of Paraná and New York Botanical Garden.

The course aims to prepare community and environmental agents for the execution of the actions of the National Biodiversity Monitoring Program - the Monitora Program, and also to awaken in the inhabitants of the Amazon forest the talent for botany in order to train future parataxonomists.