Rondonia Natural Resources Management Project

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The project assists the Government to: (a) institute a series of changes in policies so as to provide a coherent incentive framework for the sustainable development of Rondonia; (b) conserve the rich biodiversity of the State, while creating the basis for the sustainable utilization of its renewable natural resources for the direct economic benefit of the local population; (c) protect and enforce the borders of all conservation units, Amerindian reserves, public forests and extractive reserves, and control and prevent illegal deforestation, wood transport and forest fires; (d) develop integrated farming systems in areas suitable for permanent agriculture and agro-forestry, and systems for sustainable forest management and extraction of non-wood forest products in other areas which should remain under natural forest cover; (e) support priority investments in socio-economic infrastructure and services to implement the State's agro-ecological zoning; and lastly, (f) consolidate the technical operational capacity of state institutions. The project, implemented over a period of 5 years, supports priority environmental conservation, management and enforcement activities, and finances no new settlements or new roads.