As seen on Blog Do Manejo Florestal Comunitário (Portuguese)
Thursday” July 19″ 2012
Rough translation
A historical day. For the first time the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) gives a permit to take logs from a Extractivist Reserve.
The sixty three families that are members of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve Association at Xapuri” Acre” were given the permit after 8 years of disputes with IBAMA and ICMBio. On July 17th” the community leaders got together at the Xapuri and received the permit document from Anselmo Gonçalves” a ICMBio environmental officer” and Marque Brito” Forest Director at the State of Acre Department of Forests” Industry” Commerce and Sustainable Services.
The State of Acre invested R$ 250″000 (~US$ 130″000) on the forest management plan and the inventory of almost 19″000 hectares of forest. For the present year” logging was authorized on 1″200 ha of managed forest. Each family will earn around R$ 8″000.