Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve
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| Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve | |
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| Reserva Extrativista Guariba Roosevelt | |
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources) | |
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| Nearest city | Colniza, Mato Grosso |
| Coordinates | 9°02′24″S 60°31′41″W / 9.040°S 60.528°W |
| Area | 164,224 hectares (405,810 acres) |
| Designation | Extractive reserve |
| Created | 19 June 1996 |
| Administrator | Mato Grosso Coordenadoria de Unidades de Conservação |
The Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve (Portuguese: Reserva Extrativista Guariba Roosevelt) is an extractive reserve in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. A small traditional population live through fishing, hunting, small-scale agriculture and sale of forest products such as nuts. The reserve is under intense pressure from illegal logging and land grabbing.
The Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve has an area of 164,224 hectares (405,810 acres) in parts of the Mato Grosso municipalities of Colniza (75%), Aripuanã (22%) and Rondolândia (3%). The park has a highly irregular outline resembling a capital letter A. It lies to the south of the Guariba State Park in Amazonas. The Roosevelt River forms its western boundary and the Guariba River forms the eastern boundary of the northern part of the reserve. Both these rivers originate on the Parecis plateau. The MT-418 highway, which runs west to become the RO-205 highway in Rondônia, crosses the southern part of the reserve.[1]
Environment
The reserve is the only state extractive reserve in Mato Grosso, and one of the last strongholds of traditional extraction. It is mainly in the Amazon biome, with a sub-humid warm tropical climate. Fauna include jaguar, tapir, black caiman, ocelot, capuchin monkey, six-banded armadillo, paca, agouti and birds such as barn swallow, swallow-tailed kite, solitary tinamou and gulls. The extractive products include nuts and rubber, and the community hunts and fishes. The reserve is threatened by illegal logging and poaching.[1]
The reserve is the last frontier of deforestation in Mato Grosso. Illegal loggers destroy the environment and also endanger the lives of traditional residents and un-contacted Indians living on the border of the unit. In October 2015 state employees arrested six people in the act of illegally felling trees and processing the wood. They seized a large tractor, 80 logs and a motorcycle, and were searching for two other vehicles used to remove forest products. Infrastructure built by the criminals include two wooden bridges.[2] As of 2016 about 300 people from a unique traditional community were living in the area. Their presence was important in protecting the indigenous tribes living beside the reserve and maintaining the biodiversity in an area where a new species on monkey had recently been discovered.[3]