Three-banded armadillo Conservation Program

FINANCIADOR: BOTICARIO GROUP FOUNDATION FOR NATURE PROTECTION

STATUS: CONCLUDED

ABOUT THE PROJECT

MAIN RESULTS

To identify and create Conservation Units in priority areas for the conservation of Threebanded armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus) in the municipalities of Castelo do Piauí, Buriti dos Montes, and São Miguel do Tapuio in the state of Piauí.

• The Associação Caatinga was executive coordinator of the National Action Plan (PAN, as per its acronym in Portuguese) for the Conservation of the Three-banded armadillo and contributed with actions of the PAN; • 2 expeditions to identify areas of occurrence of the species; • Identification of priority areas for conservation of three-banded armadillo in Piauí; • Publication of a xenarthras (NeoXen) distribution compilation and update of the current occurrence mapping of the species; • Identification of potential properties for the creation of RPPNs; • Subsidy for the creation of the Poti River Canyon State Park; • Preparation of a proposal for the creation of a federal APA in an area where the species can be found.

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO OF THE TATU-BOLA EXPEDITION TO THE POTI RIVER CANYON, CLICK HERE.

Communication

THE YEAR 2019 WAS A YEAR OF HARVESTS AND GREAT VISITS, TO EXPLAIN, WE NEED TO GO BACK TO 2016, THE YEAR WE LAUNCHED OUR FIRST CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION CENTER - CPCTB.

Unfortunately, we did not reach the established goal at that time, but we did not give up our purpose of contributing to the reduction of the risk of disappearance of the three-banded armadillo in the wild. We continued with our studies and actions related to this purpose, which resulted in the participation in The Wall of the Caldeirão do Huck show, represented by Daniel Fernandes, general coordinator, Sandino Moreira, environmental education coordinator and Rodrigo Castro, who is a member of AC’s board. In addition to our participation in The Wall, we also participated in the II Poti River expedition in partnership with researchers and photographers from National Geographic Brazil. The expedition aimed to identify the species in areas not yet traveled in the region, as well as to complement biological data collected in the first expedition.

The Brazilian three-banded armadillo, the Associação Caatinga mascot, was affectionately named Tatutinga, we launched in May the campaign to choose his name in our social networks. We had the visit of Professor Paulo Jubilut to the Serra das Almas Natural Reserve. Jubilut is a professor of biology, founder of the YouTube channel and website Biologia Total. We launched the Carnauba production chain Good Practices Manual, a guide that seeks to encourage the qualification of the professionals involved with the management of the carnauba palm.

2019 was marked by several workshops and events, we highlight the workshops on the use of the licuri palm in three Bahian communities: Alegre, Barriguda and Campo Largo, the I Seminar on Economic Incentives for Nature Conservation, that discussed the creation and strengthening of public policies that promote funding for nature conservation projects, the Hug the Tatu-bola Campaign, that seeks to bring the environmental agenda to people’s daily lives in an understandable and ludic way, the inauguration of the Caatinga native seedling nursery at Johnson High School, and the creation of the Mata Branca Club, a signature club that contributes significantly to the protection of the Caatinga.

It was a year of renewal and great results, we renewed support with the Boticario Group Foundation for nature protection through the RPPN: Voluntary Conservation Generating Environmental Services project. The partnership with Latam continued and during the year we published twice in their Vamos magazine. We concluded the third phase of the No clima da Caatinga project, carried out by the Associação Caatinga and sponsored by Petrobras through the Petrobras Socio-Environmental Program, with expressive results, and the production of the documentary ‘O Mundo de Raimundo: No clima da Caatinga’, which gave face and voice to the project’s actions, showing the families benefited by the NCC. It was also the closing year of the partnership with the Boticario Group Foundation, which supported the Three-banded Conservation Program.

And to finish 2019 with great news, in December, the project No Clima da Caatinga won the Innovative Experiences for the promotion of sustainable development Award from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), for the work developed in ten rural communities in the municipality of Buriti dos Montes (PI).