| THE ORIGINAL PLANTATION (GPS position: S 02.46.11.1 / W 55.01.30.0 ) The Maguari village is situated 3 hours by boat, south of Alter Do Chao, small village east of Santarem, in the State of Para. The community lives inside a now protected area, the TAPAJOS NATIONAL FOREST. In 2001, the Rodrigues family contacted ANDA Reflorestamento with a request to help them reforest a 4 hectares degraded land. ANDA decided to allocate them a financial aid to buy out this land. The variety of trees planted enabled to enrich this land which had been deforested in the eighties. the reforestation project, supervised by the forest engineer, Eder zanetti, in collaboration with the IBAMA, allowed for the plantation of 2400 trees sponsored by donors in Europe and 600 more sponsored by ANDA. In July 2002, ANDA prepared the seedlings in its Caranazal nursery. During the month of January 2003, the land was prepared by opening 4 meter wide trenches. On the 25 of February, the official authorization de reforest was given by the IBAMA. the plantation was done in 3 days with the collaboration of ANDA and the Maguari community. |
| PHOTOS 2003: Click on the photos to enlarge them |
  
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| 2. The plantation in March 2004 The counting of the trees was made in January 2004, which showed that 472 trees out of the 300 planted had not survived the first year, thus a success rate of 82%. 472 seedlings were provided to the Maguari community for replanting in January 2005. |
| PHOTOS 2004: Click on the photos to enlarge them |
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