Brasília – Fundo Amazônia (the Amazon Fund) will allocate R$ 23.693 million to forest monitoring in the countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (Acto), of which Brazil is a member.
The initiative will help increase capacity to control deforestation and changes in land usage in member countries, which house a combined 99% of the Amazon’s biome. The Acto is composed of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
Brazil will offer satellite image surveillance technology from its National Institute for Spatial Research (Inpe, in the Portuguese acronym). The country will also fund surveillance centres and personnel training. The project should last 5 years.
A cooperation agreement was signed this Thursday (3) by the Brazilian minister of Environment, Izabella Teixeira, the foreign minister Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado, the Brazilian Development Bank director and manager of Fundo Amazônia, Guilherme Lacerda, the Acto secretary-general, Robby Ramlakhan, and the ambassador of Norway – the leading donor to Fundo Amazônia –, Aud Marit Wiig.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
