Sites
Several sites spread over a gradient of anthropisation.
An observatory based on contrasted sites
The methodology will be deployed from a few selected sites in the Amazon where the team has gathered knowledge and data. The selected sites distributed in the State Pará, Amapá, Mato Grosso and Amazonas states include protected areas, territories along roads with a recent or long history of colonization, territories along rivers, territories in planed regional development and a trans-border site between Brazil and the French Guyana. The multi-site approach will give the opportunity to study the anthropic of the Amazon in several configurations.
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Funded in 1754 by the portugueses, the economic activity has long been based on non-timber forest products. Timber extraction amplified between 1940 and 1970. -
The Northeastern region of Pará, situated around Belem, is one of the oldest deforestation frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon: most of the forest was removed c.100 years ago and only very few patches of primary forest remain. -
The BR-163 and Mato Grosso region
Sinop was founded in 1974 by a private colonization firm in the northern part of the state of Mato Grosso. Since its foundation, Sinop has grown incredibly fast. Today the city has more than 130,000 inhabitants. -
The Uatumã Sustainable Development Reserve (Uatumã RDS) is one of the main research sites of the SINBIOSE Project (Sistema de indicadores da Biodiversidade para o uso dos atores: biodiversidade terrestre e aquática - rio Amazonas e Oiapoque). -
The French Guyana-Brazil, Amapá region remains relatively isolated on both sides of the frontier, poorly accessible.