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Brazil is acknowledged as the most biodiversity-rich country in the world.
Brazil is characterized by extraordinary species-rich biotas and very high regional and local endemism.
From the environmental point of view, the defining characteristics are: (i) the extreme fragmentation and destruction of the Atlantic forest-less than 7% remains of the original vegetation cover, (ii) its extraordinary biodiversity, and (iii) the high level of endemism.
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The ruins of Brazil's first church lay at the top of a cliff to the north of Porto Seguro.
Both existing and proposed conservation units are in excelente state of conservation, and include almost 80% of remaining Atlantic forest that remains in Brazil.
Sooretama has a staff of 23 people, of which one is the director, one secretary, 20 guards and one driver.
It is the second largest park in Brazil and it makes up with Parque Nacional Serrania la Neblina, in Venezuela, of 1,360,000 hectares one of the largest protected biological habitats in the world.
The region climate is hot and humid, typically tropical of Brazil central.
One of the richest fauna in Brazil is located at Parque do Pico da Neblina and many of its species are close to extinction.
The Sooretama reserve is not far away, and although we did have an Ibama permit for this, we had difficulties in reaching the best spot (Estrada Quirinão, a splendid track in high forest) because a large tree had fallen across the road when coming from the North.
The plateau is the source of the Francisco river (photo), one of the longest in Brazil.
Now it was at the end of our long series of interesting reserves and parks in SE Brazil, and although we got several new species in Itatiaia NP, we were not as impressed as we had anticipated.
As the proportion of howler and spider-monkeys decreases, the prevalence of simian malaria diminishes, as in Barreifinha, Porto Maua, near the Manaus- Itacoatiara road, Sao Jose, Sooretama (Deane et al.
Sero-epidemiological studies of malaria in indian tribes and monkeys of the Amazon basin of Brazil.
Atlantic Rain Forest - The Conservation Plan of the Remainders of Murici Forest in the Northeast of Brazil is an example of the Integrated Projects of Conservation of the Atlantic Rain Forest executed by FBCN.
Among these projects are: research and guidance of the local population about environmental education and alternative solutions to the problem of deforestation.
Birds threatened with extinction in the northeast of Brazil.
www.fbcn.org.br /ingles/tr.htm (1608 words)
RSA 2003 | Aracruz Celulose(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
For the Forestry Partners Program, which is present in more than 100 municipalities in the States of Espírito Santo, Bahia and Minas Gerais, Aracruz supplies eucalyptus seedlings and technical assistance for free and commits to purchasing the wood that is produced upon harvest.
Upon the publishing of a revised list of endangered species in Brazil, in May 2003, an adjustment was made to the company's own list.
The preservation of the environment and the commitments signed with the government, non-governmental organizations and local community during the establishment of the terminal was the subject of a Global Compact case study.
Alfabetização Solidária - Casos(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In April, as a reward, she was recognized by the IstoÉ Gente magazine, one of the twenty women who has been contributing to changing Brazil, next to well-known personalities, such as the top model Giselle Bündchen, Sao Paulo’s mayor Marta Suplicy, the biologist from Sao Paulo Mayana Zatz and Brazil’s first-lady Marisa Letícia.
The Rasfaski family, from Sooretama city, in Espirito Santo, had a number of reasons to enter one of the Solidarity in Literacy classes.
José’s story would only be one more story in a scene of 15 million illiterates in Brazil, hadn’t it been spotted for one thing: he attended, as a student, the Solidarity in Literacy course in Itapiúna (CE), between August and December 2000.
Neotropical Entomology - Occurrence of the green leafhopper of papaya, Solanasca bordia (Langlitz) (Hemiptera: ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The leafhopper specimens from the 18 samples collected from papaya plants from six different municipalities of Espírito Santo, in 2001 and 2002, were all identified as the species Solanasca bordia (Langlitz) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae).
The species was also found in one sample collected from papaya in the municipality of Sooretama in August 2002, and in seven samples collected from papaya in six different orchards located in the municipality of Linhares in August and September 2002.
The leafhopper common on papaya in Brazil was, until now, only identified to genus and referred to in the scientific literature as Empoasca sp.
Brazil Birds during FONT Tours - Part 2 of 2(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There have been 38 FONT birding tours in Brazil, during which 1,003 species of birds have cumulatively been found.
Southeast Brazil (particularly places in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, including the areas of Itatiaia Natl Park and Ubatuba, Angra dos Reis, and Cubatao along the coast)
where FONT has been in Brazil include Iguacu Falls (with fine forest in the national park) and Brasilia (with good cerrado habitat).
Chestnut-bellied Guan Penelope ochrogaster in the Araguaia Valley, Tocatins, Brazil.
Southeast Brazil Tape by Mark Elwonger - includes a cut of the recently discovered São Francisco Sparrow, Arremon franciscanus, the description of which is in press.
Birds of a habitat spectrum in the Itirapina Savanna, São Paulo, Brazil (1982-2003).
Before we left for Brazil, we were told a new pousada was being built in Serra dos Orgaos NP in 2002.
Arriving at Sooretama in the evening, we tried to reach the Sooretama director, in which we didn’t succeed.
Because of the strike, she couldn’t give us a permit… but she noted our names and called to the Sooretama office, assuring us that we could visit the reserve the next day, after a visit to the Sooretama headquarters.
A new species of raptor from the rainforests of south-eastern Amazonian Brazil, extreme eastern Bolivia and the Atlantic forests of eastern Brazil, has been found.
The same is not true for the separate population in Brazil’s Atlantic forests, an area that has suffered extensive deforestation and is the focus of BirdLife’s Brazil Program.
From the map in the article, it appears that the Atlantic specimens ranged from the vicinity of Una, BA to the vicinity of Sooretama, ES.
Espirito Santo is a state in the South East of Brazil.
Birding is better at Linhares than Sooretama because of the much better access to the forest and because poachers are kept out.
In three visits to Sooretama I have never seen the Red-billed Curassow Crax blumenbachii but heard it on one and saw it on another of the four days I spent recently at Linhares.
In May 2000, a parliamentary initiative that would have resulted in the legalization of forest destruction was defeated as a result of a strong national and international campaign to save the forests (see WRM bulletin 35).
In March 2001, the same parliamentarians as before --12 representing the interests of large landowners in a parliamentary committee composed of 16 members-- again began trying to introduce changes to the current legislation that provides legal protection to all the forest ecosystems in the country.
Within such context it is important to highlight that recently the municipal authorities of Sooretama had the courage to denounce the purchasing of lands by Aracruz within that municipality.
(ES is for the state Espiritu Santo, this is the ES branch)
Linhares (for Sooretama and Linhares reserves): most birders stay(ed) at hotel Linhatur in Linhares itself, fax 027 3373 7000 (61 rooms, 75 reales per room).
We were (see report about mixed feelings) in the expensive lodge of Linhares reserve, fax 027 3273 1277, or try e-mail (in English) to Valeria
My wife and I took a birding tour with Ornifolks to the southeast part of Brazil.
Here we were able to add Red-ruffed Fruitcrow, White-flanked Antbird, Striated Softtail, Scalloped Antbird, Band-tailed Antwren, Cinereous Antshrike, Olivaceous Flatbill, Grayish Mourner, Pearly-breasted Cuckoo, Sooretama Slaty Antshrike, Yellow-throated Woodpecker, White-fronted Nunbird, White-browed Blackbird (on the way in to the reserve), Thrushlike Woodcreeper, Tataupa Tinamou, and two Barn Owls on the way out.
It was still raining as we went to the Linhares reserve for the final time to try to find Red-billed Curassow.