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Region of Manaus

The Uatumã Sustainable Development Reserve (Uatumã RDS) is one of the main research sites of the SINBIOSE Project (Sistema de indicadores da Biodiversidade para o uso dos atores: biodiversidade terrestre e aquática - rio Amazonas e Oiapoque).

This protected area is a conservation unit created by the Amazon state in 2004 with 424.4 thousand hectares in the Uatumã and Jatapu rivers where 1,300 inhabitants live. The main economic activities are family farming, logging and non-timber extraction, subsistence fishing, commercial fishing, ecotourism and sport fishing.

Regional challenges

- Disputes of land tenure with large timber company and private land owners

- Enduring environmental impacts caused by the impoundment of the river to form the Balbina hydroelectric lake downstream of the reserve.

- Socio-environmental impacts caused by the exploitation of the area by private sports fishing tourism companies.

- Uatumã RDS was the first conservation unit to receive the Bolsa Floresta program, a payment scheme for environmental services created by the state government but operated by a private non-profit foundation.

Main questions in past and on-going research

Evaluating food security and vulnerability: the FOODSECA project

  • What is the impact of seasonality on food security in isolated urban regions?
  • What is the carrying capacity of terrestrial and aquatic environments to meet urban demand?
  • What are the external factors that influence eating habits?
  • Is it possible to predict the degree of vunerability to extreme climatic variations and favor their resilience ?

Biodiversity and protected areas: the SINBIOSE Project 

  • How to construct useful indicators for actors?
  • Which type of indicators is useful for each border side?
  • How to build a common framework?
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