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What’s a RPPN?
The Private Reserve of natural Proprerty, knows as RPPN too, are areas
of nature conservation in those privates’ proprerties. The RPPN’s aim is
to propetc the representations ambient’s resources of the region, in
private areas, where are just accepted activities with scientific
purpose, cultural, educational, recreative and leisure. It’s admitted
economics activities, like apiculture, the sale of handcrafts and the
ecotourism too, if inside of development’s parameters necessaries to the
protect, looking always the sustainability. These activities can’t
compromise the integrity of the naturals resources protects there. It’s
forbid any kind of extrativism, hunting and fishing, capture of animals,
retreat of plants, deforestation, wood’s burn and other acts damage to
the environment. It’s unities conservation of permanent character, which
makes with even if this lands will be sell or inherit in the future, the
new landowner can’t change the ambient, because the recongnition’s title
of the reserve in irrevocable.
RPPN Pedra do Cachorro, first reserve of the
biome Caatinga, recognized by Government of Pernambuco, is
situated in São Caetano. It’s 20km from Caruaru and 153 km from Recife.
It’s one of the highest points of the state. What permits that in can be
seen more than 60 km of distance, in fact, awake the curiosity of many
people to know it more near.
Caatinga
The unknown ecosystem genuinement brasilian.
The term Caatinga is descended from ‘Tupi-Guarani language’ and means
“white wood”. It’s the main ecosystem existent in the Northeast Region.
Occupy the states of Bahia, Ceará, Piauí, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do
Norte, Paraíba, Sergipe, Alagoas, maranhão and noth of Minas Gerais.
According to the Censo 200, about 27 millions of Brazilians live in the
semi-arid’s region. The caatinga shows three stratums: arboreous, shrub
and cactaceous. Dominated by kinds of vegetation with xerophyte’s
characteristics. It’s an exclusive Brasilian biome, but its
biodiversities is one of the less knows in the world. However Unesco
already recognized it as Biosphere’s reserve.
How to visit this RPPN? Contacts:
Guaraci Cardoso: (81) 3226 – 1997 /
9639 – 6408
E-mail: guaracicardoso@hotmail.com
Alba Maria: (81) 3252 – 3927 / 9123
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