ITEREI Rio+20 by Lea Correa Pinto

“Mountains under review: human alteration

Rio

of landscapes”

Rio+2

TECHNICAL WORKSHOP Rio+20 SIDE EVENT Auditorium, Mountain Pavilion, Athletes’ Park, Rio de Janeiro 16 June 2012 11.00 – 13.00 hours

Iterei ^ The Mountain Comes to Rio+20 Ms. Léa Corrêa Pinto, Pedagogue, coordinator of Iguassu ITEREI Citizenship Movement Reference Centre for Water, Forests and Mountains , founder of MVVC~CC Plataforma

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“Mountains under review: human alteration of landscapes” 11.00 – 11.10 Introductory statement – Ms. Rita Cardoso C. Delboni, State of Rio de Janeiro 11.10 – 11.25 “The Mountain comes to Rio+20” ‐ Ms. Léa Corrêa Pinto, coordinator of Iguassu ITEREI 11.25 – 11.40 “Alps under review – land use change” Mr. Giacomo Luciani, European Academy Bolzano (EURAC) 11.40 – 11.55 “Experiences from the Hindu Kush‐ Himalayas”‐ Mr. Madhav Karki Deputy Director General, ICIMOD 11.55 – 12.10 “Integrated Space Technologies Applications for Sustainable Development in the Andean Regions” Mr. David Stevens, Programme Coordinator, N‐SPIDER, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) 12.10 – 12.25 “The need for comprehensive data collection – experiences from the UNEP RID network” ‐ Mr. Lawrence Hislop, Head of Polar Programme, UNEP Grid Arendal 12.25 – 13.00 Conclusions and discussion among panelists and the audience– Moderator: Mr. Peter Gilruth, Director, UNEP DEWA

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Brazilian East Coast Range (3058 KM)

Brazil is the country that probably hides in its own territory the largest extension of mountain range “Serra do Mar”, “Serra Mantiqueira , “Serra do 3 Espinhaço“

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Brazilian Mountains

In contrast to the Andes, which rose to elevations of nearly 7,000 metres (22,966 ft) in a relatively recent epoch and inverted the Amazon's direction of flow from westward to eastward, Brazil's geological formation is very old. Precambrian crystalline shields cover 36% of the territory, especially its central area. The principal mountain ranges average elevations just under 2,000 metres (6,562 ft). The Serra do Mar Range, 150.000.000 years old hugs the Atlantic coast, and the Serra do EspinhaĂ§o Range, the largest in area, extends through the south-central part of the country. The highest point in Rio de Janeiro, Pico das Agulhas Negras (2.787 metros) A Pedra da Mina is the fourth highest brazilian mountain is located in the Serra da Mantiqueira (22 Â° 25 'S, 44 Â° 51' W) 2798.39m altitude The highest brazilian mountains are in the Tumucumaque, Pacaraima and Imeri ranges, among others, which traverse the northern border with the Guianas and Venezuela. The highest point in Brazil is Pico da Neblina at 2,994 m (9,823 ft).

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Serra do Espinhaço

SOS to the Central Plateau, eastern slope of the Serra do Espinhaço, which has been contaminated by the Brazilian Nuclear Program which operates uranium Caetité in Bahia! “ Uranium Mountains & Lots of Other Mines

SOS para o Planalto Central, vertente oriental da Serra do Espinhaço, que vem sendo contaminado pelo Programa Nuclear Brasileiro que explora urânio em Caetité, na Bahia! ” Zoraide Vilasboas Ngo ASMPJ .

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Serra da Mantiqueira

Vilasboas Ngo ASMPJ .

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Serra da Mantiqueira

The Serra da Mantiqueira almost five hundred kilometers in length , hides several health tourist resorts, such as Campos do Jord達o, Brazil's highest city. The name Mantiqueira derives from a Tupy Guarano word meaning "mountains that cry", exemplifying its large number of springs and streams 7

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Serra do Mar

crosses the States of Santa Catarina , Paranรก, Sรฃo Paulo, Espirito Santo & Rio Janeiro

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East Coast Population x Atlantic Rainforest It lasts only 5% of the original Atlantic Rainforest, although the existence of several protected areas along the 8000 km of the coast, including 2 Unesco Biosphere Reserves. It is by this Serra do Mar that brazilian population mostly lives, using water and other benefits from these mountain systems . It is along the Brazilian East Coastal Range where are located most of our cities and the metropolis Florian贸polis, Curitiba, S茫o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Vit贸ria, Salvador, Recife etc and thus as most industries, infrastructure and services .

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Rainforest Mata Atl창ntica

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Rio+2

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The former MATA ATLANTICA pictures were taken in ITEREI:

All About Mountains, Water, Forests, Citzienship and Life.. Cloud Forest and Lots of Pure Water, threatened by hiway fragmentation Itere i, near S達o Paulo , in the core area of the Atlantic Rainforest World Heritage- Mab - Unesco is officially under private protection, since 1978. Iterei is an all season Park comprising 193,6 hectares, along the highest slope of "Serra do Mar", 750 meters. In Iterei borns a network of more than 50 permanent sparkling mountain streams . Trails through the spectacular remnant hillside rainforest cross a wide diversity of 20-30m high trees belonging to

Schyzolobium, Vochysia, Ocotea and Nectrandra genera, which sponsors wonderful green scenery. These huge trees are glamorized by epiphytes chiefly pteriodofts or colorful bromeliads and orchids. Iterei is natural habitat formammals at least (89 species), reptiles &amphibians (over 125 species), insects and aracnideos (too many to count!), birds(over 275 species) including 18 endangered species! Iterei offers mountain environmental services for the populations of Sao Paulo and downhill.

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Yet Still Plenty of life requiring prevention + knowlegde, best sustainable practises and technology, mitigation + recuperation mechanisms as well as consciouness, ethics, government real care, plus citizienship mobilization + a miracle!

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Habit Loss & Fragmentation ... Salve-se quem puder! Salve-se quem puder! ... Each one for itself â&#x20AC;&#x153;Habitat fragmentation is the process by which habitat loss results in the division of large, continuous habitats into smaller, more isolated remnants A dominant effect of increasing habitat loss is a reduction in patch area, with resulting declines in population density and species richness, and significant alterations to community composition, species interactions and ecosystem functioning.â&#x20AC;? Raphael K Didham, The University of Western Australia and CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Perth WA,

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Rio exemplifies the Beauty & the Tragedy of Brazilian Moist Tropical Highlands

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Tragical Landslides in Brazil

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Should we take lessons with the Japanese?

A year after the floods that have killed over 900 people in the mountain region of Rio de Janeiro, only eight works to solve the problem of more than 170 areas identified as high risk of landslides began. Nothing has been done to date, reports the 3rd Inspection Report to the Highlands, released on Wednesday (11) by the Regional Council of Engineering and Agronomy of Rio de Janeiro (RJ-Crea).

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Risk Management Areas in Brazilian Moist Tropical Highlands

The Crea-RJ tecnichians survey found that the process of disordered occupation of the soil persists, mainly for agricultural activities, deforestation of permanent preservation areas, and the reoccupation of areas at risk, with the construction of houses on these sites. Among the immediate guidance, the report proposes the creation and implementation of a plan for removal of the population over time with priority for high-risk areas, implement small and medium dams filled, interventions on the slopes, make effective sanitary sewer and trash drainage basin, among other recommendations . I T E R E I Iguassu CR MCPA Florestas Montanhas Br116/SP

Moist Tropical Highlands

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Risk Management Areas in Brazilian Moist Tropical Highlands The Institute for Technological Research (IPT) survey shows that landslides have killed 2,037 people in 211 Brazilian cities from 1988 to 2009. However just in the one year of 2011, passed over 1500 the number of dead and missing in these disasters.

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2 days ago , 14th June 2012, Landslide in Recife Mountains results + 3 corpses

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Risk Management Areas in Brazilian Moist Tropical Highlands 

Facing Climate Change, Increasing of Population, the Flexibilization of Environmental Law, including the “Codigo Florestal” specially regarding the topics on Moutains it urges all measures for risk management to be implemented in a global way. I T E R E I Iguassu CR MCPA Florestas Montanhas Br116/SP

incorporation to the concept of sustainability of the concept of survival

It urges the incorporation to the concept of sustainability, the concept of survival considering that in one year the average number of victims was more than quadrupled since 1980 (66.000 deaths) and costed about $ 130 billion. 950 natural disasters were recorded in 2010, a figure well above the average of 615 over the last 30 years. In Brazil, relapse enhanced, the tragedies of the highlands, by 2011; Over the next 60 years, the storms in the city of S찾o Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro, in the coastal towns and along the Atlantic Mountain Range - Serra do Mar - will triple, as, scientific study conducted by INPE (National Institute for Space Research) in partnership with the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and IAE (Institute of Aeronautics and Space). The forecast is based on increasing the temperature Atlantic Ocean water over the past 60 years, which was 0.6 째 C.;

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Pressures

on Moist Tropical Highlands

High population density, urbanization , industries, consumption, garbage and infrastructure means enourmous pressure and degradation upon mountains, Atlantic Rainforest, Cloud Mountain Forests with still lots of pure water... and I T E R E I Iguassu CR MCPA biodiversity Florestas Montanhas Br116/SP

Threaned Cassador Basin and yet Civil Resistence

Protestors block Brazil road project -The Earth Times by Jack Freeman, 4/13/97 In SĂŁo Paulo Metropolitan Green Belt lies the Cassador Basin located in the core area, of the Atlantic Rainforest World Heritage- Mab â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Unesco, it hides the Iterei Fauna and Flora Reserve, officially under private protection, since 1978 (P-163/78IBDF) and an official member of Planet Society- Unesco (Project BRA022) Around there it is planned the duplication of the hiway dividing these important area. "It must be made clear," they say in a flyer, "that there is no opposition to the construction of the highway" itself, calling it "a very important project linked to the economic well-being of millions of Latin Americans." But, they add, "the rainforest must not be destroyed" by the roadbuilders. "The authorities must change the design of the proposed duplication" of the roadway, they say, "in order to avoid destruction of a priceless ecosystem. A well designed project will cause no harm to the environment; on the contrary, the unique nature of this beautiful landscape will be enhanced." They add that there are many examples, the world over, of environmentally insensitive building projects that have been reversed because of pressure brought by environmentalists and the general public.

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Total length of 19 Km; Serra do Mar â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 19Km 1 roadway with 3 lanes Shoulder 3.0 m 4 tunnels (1,8 Km) 35 overpasses (7,0 Km)

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Caution! Unevenness between the range of traffic and the roadside

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Althoug Exemplar Hiways already exist in Brazil Tropical Mountains

Total length of 18 Km; 3 stretches in the project: (i) Plateau –3.4 Km, (ii) Serra do Mar – 11.1 Km, (iii) Baixada Santista – 3.6 Km; 1 roadway with 3 lanes Shoulder 3.0 m 4 tunnels (7.4 Km) · 8 overpasses (3.6 Km)

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Uptodate Alternatives for Fragil Mountain Areas were offered by Civil Society in 1995

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Hiways & Moist Tropical Mountains

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“Must remember that everybody lives downstream!”

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Alert

Iguassu Iterei Reference Centre Citizienship Mouvement for Water, Mountains and Forests

Financial compensation or planting of trees cannot ever reproduce the unique delicate and highly complex biological natural mountain systems

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MVVC~CC

recommendations ... Decision makers shall analyse all alternatives , weighting the true public interest, through the prism of medium and long term, regardless of the immediate costs, the forecast is to opt for greater safety of the population, to the less disastrous alternative, to the adoption of the best scientific and technological knowledge, with

the purpose of ensuring to all the multiple functions of natural resources;

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ITEREI Proposals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

PES incentives for preservation for all natural mountain areas directly to the owner : State, Comuny or Private Alert with dependence and addiction with compensation mechanisms Support Sustainability based upon ecotourism, research, art, artcrafts, no polluent industries, agroecology and traditional mountain knowledge Increase dialogue between government sectors, and government levels Support a Stronger Civil Society Increase inter-institutional dialogue Further institutionalization of participation instruments Raise awareness of mountain issues on political agendas Consolidate or create specific mountain initiatives where appropriate Improve sustainable mobility and sustainable technology for infrastructure Improve knowledge and information systems Improve data on natural mountain disaster Increase availability of academic and traditional knowledge for specific SMD purposes and decision makin Coordinate research priorities for implementing SMD Consolidate or create specific national or regional mountain initiatives Research and monitoring of climate change adaptation mechanisms, especially with regard to water availability

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add the artistic plus to the mountains biogreen economy strategy

Art intervention on landscapes is a positive alteration to the landscapes In the perspective of world's population, up to 9 billion inhabitants in 2050, it will not be the unique human alteration on Earth!In view of the scarcity of natural resources , we propose to launch the green building to popular mountain housing and add the artistic plus

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Credits Text and Design Author : Léa Corrêa Pinto | Iguassu Iterei coordinator of Reference Centre MCPA Mountains and Forests

Photo and Image Credits:

AP Photo/Felipe Dana Bruno Camolez/ Trekearth Dario Sanches Demis Bucci Ecovias dos Imigrantes Emerson Kaseker Flavio Guglielmino Google Images

Gabriel Asa C. Gruberger Instituto Rã - Bugio Léa Corrêa Pinto Luiz Bocian O Estado de São Paulo/ Divulgação Osmar Castro Peter Mix Plataforma MVVC-~CC Rogério Menezes Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images

Pro-bono Consultor: Zuleica Amorim | Bellini Cultural I T E R E I Iguassu CR MCPA Florestas Montanhas Br116/SP

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“Mountains under review: human alteration of landscapes” Iterei - The Mountain Comes to Rio +20 Panelist: Ms. Léa Corrêa Pinto, Pedagogue, coordinator of Iguassu ITEREI Citizenship Movement eference Center for Water, Forests and Mountains , founder of MVVC ~CC Plataforma Stakeholder type: Major Groups NGO Submission Document: rioITEREI.pdf Local Adress: Rod. Regis Bittencourt Br-116 km 350 Sao Paulo Brasil Mail Adress: Av Angélica 1106-105 Sao Paulo 01228-100 BR Email: ngiterei@uol.com.br Sites : http://s.lourencinho.sites.uol.com.br http://ngiterei.sites.uol.com.br/2010ItereiFlora/1.htm More indications/Aprofundar no tema Historical: http://issuu.com/iterei/docs/itereimemoria1 Colorful Rainforest: http://issuu.com/iterei/docs/itereiwedexibition Don´t Miss! http://issuu.com/iterei/docs/itereimastofauna Zero Draft: http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/content/documents/713UNcs d2012ITEREI.pdf

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