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Brazilian Atlantic Coastal Range ( 3058 KM ) ď Ź
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Brazil is the country that probably hides in its own territory the largest extension of mountain range
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Brazilian population lives mostly by this East Coast although the existence of several protected areas
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Threaned Cassador Basin Protestors block Brazil road project -The Earth Times by Jack Freeman, 4/13/97
In São Paulo Metropolitan Green Belt lies the Cassador Basin located in the core area, of the Atlantic Rainforest World Heritage- Mab – 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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Cloud Forest and Lots of Pure Water
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Lots of Biodiversity & Civil Resistence
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The Mountain´s Magie
All over the world mountains have been a children´s theme on their drawings and have been worshiped by the traditional natives, and around here it is just the same , even up to now by oneanother as well as in the other countries! The belief that mountains get mad when hurted could be accepted, considering the uptodate geological and geotechnical knowledge
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Tragical Landslides in Brazil
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Exemplar Hiways already exist in Brazil
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Uptodate Alternatives for Fragil Mountain Areas were offered by Civil Society
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Attention!
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Attention!
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Must remember that everybody lives downstream!
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Serra do Mar Civil Society and Ecologists Thus, although all efforts being unsucessful, for caution a group of citiziens , the Iguassu Iterei Reference Center from the Citizienship Mouvement for Water, Mountains and Forests and others civil society organizations, considering that not just in Cassador Basin but all over mountains are been neglected decided that it was time for more effective actions and mobilization 13
suported by the prevention and precaution principles and against the environmental legal flexibilization. From theory to practice . This is the origin of the Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change towards Rio+20, on the basys for desirable participative governance.
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The Plataform Launches
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Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change towards
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The Mountains, Valleys, Life and Citizensip Platform, created by the individuals and the entities undersigned, warns the Brazilian and the Global society about the importance of mountains and valleys, from the urban to the rural and the forested ones, regarding their space, territoriality, local and downstream communities from the strategical, global economic and socio-environmental points of view through the perspective of climate change;
2. Permanent Preservation Areas - APPs are those protected areas in terms of 2º and 3º Articles of the Brazilian Forest Code (Federal Law No. 4.771/1965). The legal concept of APP relates to such areas, regardless of soil cover, the environmental function of preserving water resources, landscape, geological stability, biodiversity, plants and animals gene flow, of protecting the soil and of ensuring the wellbeing of human populations; 3. The environment is the set of conditions, laws, influences and interactions of physical, chemical, biological, social, cultural and urban, which allows and governs life in all its forms (Brazilian Federal Law No. 6938/1981); 4. The Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil (1988) asserts, in Article 225, that the environment is a healthy and balanced right of the community, therefore everyone - the Government and the society - have a duty to defend it for their own enjoyment and for the future generations; 5. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (1992), held in Rio de Janeiro guarded Chapter XIII of AGENDA XXI, for fragile mountain ecosystems, because they are important sources of water, energy and biological diversity. In addition, they are key resources – for minerals, forest and agricultural products - and are a source of pleasure. As a major ecosystem representing the complex and inter-related ecology of our planet, mountain environments are essential for the survival of the global ecosystem.. Yet mountain ecosystems are undergoing rapid change. They are vulnerable to accelerated soil erosion, landslides and rapid loss of genetic diversity
and habitat;
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6. Rio +20 is an excellent opportunity now to assess the status of the Sao Paulo, the Brazilian and the Global mountains, slopes and valleys environmental degradation, the actions taken in support of sustainable mountain development, the challenges, the opportunities and the necessary steps to move forward in the future; 7. In times of climate change, it is essential that all development activities, among them the infrastructure for transmontana mobility, are seized based on the principles of precaution and prevention, since natural disasters recorded in 2010 killed more than 296 800 people in the world; 8. 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; 9. 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 waater over the past 60 years, which was 0.6 째 C.; 10. The Mountains, Valleys, Life and Citizenship Platform, calls everyone to join forces and to contribute with proposals and to promote debate with a view: on the maintenance of existing environmental legislation; on the weighting of the true public interest, through the prism of medium and long term, as to public and private enterprises, on the analysis of all alternatives, and 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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11. The Mountains, Valleys, Life and Citizenship Platform confirms the population aspiration for a Brazil and for a World with more health, less injustice, in which the quality of life for all is a criterion taken into account. A World in which the poorest are not relegated to places destroyed, dangerous and unhealthy. Where nature is respected in order to remain our main source of life and not the messenger of our diseases and disasters, (CBDFDS, 2011). S達o Paulo&Salvador, September 2011 500 networks, civil organizations and citizens have already signed this present Adhesion Letter which was launched in Sao Paulo State, parallel to the 1st Rio +20 Paulista Seminar, as during the Seminar of the 4th edition of the MDGs promoted by The Presidency General Secretariat , the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) and the National Movement for Citizenship and Solidarity, as well as during the Dialogue and Convergence National Meeting of Agroecology, Environmental Health and Justice, Food Sovereignty , Solidarity Economy and Feminism
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No doubt is very important to: 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 tecnology 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 But allways remember that mountains belong to its communitie and countries, and be very cautions regarding environmental commodities and nature merchandising.
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Credits
Author Léa Correa Pinto Iguassu Iterei coordinator of CR MCPA Mountains and Forests Photos Google Images AP Photo/Felipe Dana Ecovias dos Imigrantes Gabriel Asa C.Gruberger Instituto Rã-Bugio Lea Correa Pinto Luiz Bocian Osmar Castro Peter Mix Rogerio Menezes VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images Drawings Children Context
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