Motions
APPROVED MOTIONS
1. Name of the institution/proponent: Rede Nacional Pró-Unidades de Conservação
Taking into account that the solution of the legal suit on the constitutionality of Federal Act 4887 of November 20, 2003 (ADIN 3229), which regulates procedures for the identification, recognition, delimitation, demarcation, and granting of deeds of the lands occupied by descendents from quilombola communities which the article 68 of the Transitory Constitutional Dispositions Act deals with, under analysis by the Supreme Court is extremely important for the future of Protected Areas.
The participants of the VI CBUC decide to:
Ask the Supreme Court maximum urgency in the judgment of the case and special attention is given by the justices of that court to the analysis and their voting in the case in order to ensure the territorial integrity of the Protected Areas, especially the integrally protected ones.
2. Name of the institution/proponent: Rede Nacional Pró-Unidades de Conservação
The participants of the VI CBUC decide to:
Ask the government of the State of Paraná and the President of the Instituto Ambiental do Paraná – IAP – to publicly clarify the license of deforestation granted by the IAP in the Serra da Esperança State EPA, located in the Guairacá district, Guarapuava, in an area of 266.27 hectares and a volume to be extracted of 21,210 cubic meters of native timber, which was required by Nissei Administradora de Bens Ltda. The license is directed to cultivated forest essences, but the area in question represents a remnant of Paraná Pine Forest in advanced state of conservation.
3. Name of the institution/proponent: Associação Caatinga
Considering the equal importance and relevance of all Brazilian biomes for the country’s sustainability and that the Caatinga and Cerrado biomes are not taken into account in the Constitution.
The participants of the VI CBUC decide to:
To ask the National Congress maximum speed in the approval of the proposal of amendment to the Constitution (PEC) 115/95 which modifies paragraph 4 of the article 225 of the Constitution, including the Cerrado and the Caatinga in the list of biomes considered as National Patrimony.
4. Name of the institution/proponent: Associação Regional de Proteção e Integração Ambiental Carmópolis de Minas – MG
Having in mind that there is an expectation of the installation of several Small Hydroelectric Plants (SHP) in the state of Minas Gerais, some of them inside the Buffer Zones of Protected Areas, and that the cumulative effect of their implementation might cause the compromise of biodiversity, among other impacts that affect the basin as a whole.
The participants of the VI CBUC decide to:
Repudiate the implementation of SHPs inside and around established Protected Areas, and that environmental agencies evaluate the enterprises as a whole and not individually.
5. Name of the institution/proponent: Força-Tarefa Mantiqueira
Considering that the Mantiqueira Mountain Range, located between the two largest urban centers in Brazil, is a natural area of unique scenic beauty that possesses historical-cultural attributes that are unique in the country, constituting one of the largest mountain ranges in Brazil and is classified and recognized by several programs, projects, and scientific publications in both the Brazilian and international scopes as possessing extreme biological importance.
The participants of the VI CBUC decide to:
Ask that the conclusion of the studies is prioritized and efforts should not be spared for the definition, establishment, and immediate implementation of a system of integrally protected areas in the great corridor of the Mantiqueira Mountain Range, as well as the establishment of inter-governmental partnerships for its management.
6. Name of the institution/proponent: ONG Conhecer para Conservar
Considering that the Bill PL 1626/07 is being passed in the House of Representatives, which deals with the transfer of the management of the Environmental Protection Area of the Planalto Central to the environmental agencies of the Distrito Federal and of the state of Goiás, aiming at the establishment of enterprises that might cause significant environmental impacts on the fragile environments in the area and whose impacts will also affect all the population of said Distrito Federal.
The participants of the VI CBUC decide to:
Repudiate Bill PL 1626/07, authored by Congressman Augusto Carvalho.
7. Name of the institution/proponent: SPVS
The participants of the VI CBUC decide to:
Repudiate the studies performed by EMBRAPA that distort information in a biased manner, aiming at pressuring the Brazilian government to alter the Forest Code and not create additional protected areas, as well as to repudiate the stance of his Excellency the Ministry of Agriculture who considered that there are not enough environmental technicians able to technically discuss this matter with the technical staff at EMBRAPA.
8. Name of the institution/proponent: Rede Pró-Unidades de Conservação.
Taking into account that the Serra da Canastra National Park, a Cerrado area presenting incalculable biological wealth and great importance in the protection of hydric resources, is object of Bills that are being passed in the House of Representatives (Bills 1448/07 and 1517/07) that aim at subtracting almost 50,000 hectares of its area.
The participants of the VI CBUC decide to:
Completely repudiate changes in the boundaries of the Serra da Canastra National Park, which risks its very ecological viability, and to require the immediate adoption of the solutions to put in effect the original boundaries of the Park and resolution of conflicts, heeding to the interests of the nation, and not to the private ones.
9. Name of the institution/proponent: Força-Tarefa Mantiqueira
Taking into account that the Ecological Sales Tax is an incentive tool to biodiversity conservation implemented in several Brazilian states, which deals with the possibility of channeling financial resources to municipalities that possess protected areas in their territories, whether municipal, state, federal, of public or private domain, in several management categories, and that in the State of São Paulo federal protected areas are excluded from the calculations for the definition of the percentages to be channeled to the municipalities.
The participants of the VI CBUC decide to:
Require that the State of São Paulo reviews its legislation in order to correct this situation and include federal protected areas in the calculation, so that more incentives and benefits are given for the conservation of the last remnants of natural ecosystems in that state.
