Payments for environmental services integrated with the protection of biodiversity, water production and agroecology in the Paraíba Valley, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
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Nature's contribution to society is fundamental and people who contribute to its protection should be paid for that. This encourages farmers to engage in an ongoing process to transform land use into A sustainable process. Payment for ecosystem services is strategic to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss in the Atlantic Forest, an important global biodiversity hotspot. The objective of this article is to present the Atlantic Forest Connection Project, a government project in the State of São Paulo-Brazil, which aims to promote connectivity of forest remnants through public policies and payment for environmental services integrating protection of biodiversity,water production and agroecology. The Paraíba River Valley, located in the Paraíba Sul River basin, State of São Paulo, is one of the regions that benefit from this program. The region has 2,26 thousand inhabitants and the water produced supplies the metropolitan regions: Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The remaining vegetation of the Atlantic Forest is very fragmented, with extensive conserved areas, which limits the activity of fauna in addition to extensive cattle raising, which occupies about 50% of the productive areas in most municipalities. The Atlantic Forest Connection Project in the Paraíba Valley has actions in three directions: 1) investigation, management and monitoring (biodiversity and carbon), 2) restoration ecology in the Paraíba river basin, 3) sustainability of areas protected by law and actions for change the landscape matrix at the expense of the economic activities of farmers in conservation buffer zones. In this last action, farmers protect and restore the forest by converting their activities to a more sustainable land use and, in this way, they are compensated. In 2019, the payments for environmental services program benefited more than 700 farmers in 13 municipalities, and these payments helped to protect and restore approximately 20,718 hectares under the Atlantic Forest Biome.
Keywords: Ecosystem Services, Payments for Environmental Services, Public Policy, Environmental Conservation, Biodiversity
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