OPAN part of the advisory board of the Extractive Reserve the Ituxi
The appointment took place during a meeting in Lábrea (AM). The organization brings experience and expertise in the region, to contribute to management strategies
The Operation in the Amazon’s Native (OPAN) is a member of the Board of Directors of the Extractive Reserve (Resex) Ituxi, is an important Conservation area in the south of the Amazon river, for three years, 2025-2027. The inauguration occurred on the 13th day of march, Lábrea (AM), during the CENTURY, a Regular Meeting of the council, which was attended by the representatives of the communities, associations, public bodies, governments, the private sector, and civil society.
For more than two decades in the region, OPAN, working in collaboration with the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), and community-based organisations, and supporting sustainable production chains such as in the mouth, and the brown of the amazon. Now, as a member of the board, the institution will further strengthen its commitment to the participatory management of the Resex.
David Giroto, co-ordinator of the programme, the Amazon, and hold the board to represent the OPAN, highlighted the importance of institutional participation in this instance, the management of the Resex.
‘All of the advice, discuss some of the major issues, create strategies, and to think in terms of the maintenance of the Conservation area along the line from time to time. It is in the civil society, impacting and contributing to the construction of a public policy for the management of the drive’.
The interaction between the members of the board will also increase the impact of your initiatives. “The institutions to be more close to you, by understanding the needs of the territory, and following the discussion closely, they will be able to support more effectively the activities which take place in the Resex,” he says Valdeson Vilaça, indigenous peoples, and the alternate on the board to represent the OPAN.
The Resex Of The Ituxi
Created on June 5, 2008, the Resex of the Ituxi, is located in Lábrea (AM), from the Resex Médio Purus and in the Land of the Indigenous Jacareúba-Katawixi, the territory of the indigenous peoples in isolation. With an area of 776.940 acres, the reservation is part of the Interfluvial of the Purus-Madeira island, an area of 27.8 million hectares, which is equivalent to 5.4 per cent of the Amazon region, in the area of influence of the BR-319.
The territory is home to the 25 protected areas (Pas), and the 11 federal and 14 of the state’s nine in the Amazon region, and five in the state). These Areas play an essential role in the preservation of biological diversity and of the guarantee of the resource that are required for the maintenance of the traditional communities that live in the area.
How to work with the Councils decision-making of the Protected area?
The advice in decision-making tools are formally related to the design and management of protected Areas, by bringing together representatives from the public sector, civil society organizations, communities, educational institutions, and the private sector. As amended by the Law of the National System of protected areas of Nature (SNUC), the protected areas are administered in combination with information management, while ensuring greater social participation in decisions that have an impact on the management of the protected territories.
Currently, the Board of Directors of the Resex of the Ituxi, it is composed of 31 members, and meet face-to-face twice a year to discuss strategic issues related to the unit.