Natural Reserve Janaina

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Natural Janaina Reserve is located about 10 km as the crow flies from Itacaré, south of Salvador de Bahia, in the Baixo Sul, in Central Corridor of Atlantic Forest, 95% of which is  made up of individual private properties and where the forest is extremely fragmented. 

The Atlantic Forest is home to many endangered species, including different types of macaque, including Muriqui, which is the largest endemic mammal in Brazil. From colonial times the Atlantic Forest has been intensively cut to give space to the cities, sugar cane plantations, cocoa, coffee, cotton, rubber, grazing, mining of gold, diamonds, and in recent times to eucalyptus. From 1980 to today Southern Bahia is responsible for cutting 85% of the Atlantic Forest. Today the bioma is less than 8%, thus threatening the water supply, since most of the city is situated in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. In addition to the loss of biodiversity, one of the biggest problems is the lack of clean water and its increasing scarcity. 

 

LCR Honda and Randy de Puniet offset CO2 emissions through FirstFlora. LCR Honda is the first and only MotoGP team that has 'sparked' to offset the CO2 emissions and help to save the planet. The emissions are offset by FirstFlora through reforestation and protection of growing forest.

 

Legambiente and UniMiB (University of Milan Bicocca) Dipartment of Science and Environment, Center of Study for the Conservation of Biodiversity plant began the project of mapping the DNA of the Reserva Natural Janaina cocoa. The work on the field of Legambiente volunteers takes place twice a year. 

  

24 July 2008 

Thanks to “Institue Agua Boa” and Jorge Velloso, the Reserva Natural Janaina receives funding for georeference and legalization of set aside territories. The project entitled "Floresta Legal" is focused on ecological corridor "Serra das Onças" (Mountain of the Panthers) and is supported by Núcleo Mata Atlântica of the Ministério Público of Bahia and by The Nature Conservancy. 

Thanks to Jorge Velloso of  “Institue the Agua Boa” the Reserva Natural Janaina has entered the VI incentive call for the creation of RPPN (Private Reserves of Natural Heritage) of the Atlantic Forest. The sixth call is funded by: SOS Mata Atlantica, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International and Bradesco Bank. 

 

5 October 2007 The initiative starts and adopts a square metre of the Reserva Natural Janaina. 

 

22 July 2007 Prof. André Amorim project coordinator of the  Brazilian Atlantic Forest research of the New York Botanical Garden discovered a new species of Bromelia in the Reserva Natural Janaina and declared the area a priority for conservation. 

 

21 July 2007 Instituto de Estudos Socioambientais do Sul da Bahia (IESB) Brazilian NGO  working alongside Bird Life International supports FirstFlora, providing equipment for setting the boundaries of the Reserva Natural Janaina and trees to afforest former grazing areas. 
 

  

13 July 2007 FirstFlora is associated with the Cooperative Cabruca of Ilheus for the production of organic cocoa with a fair labour certificate. The area in the recovery of the cocoa-cabruca Janaina Natural Reserve is about  20 ha. Approximately 1 ha is a consociate production of coffee, and coconut.