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PROJECT-SUPPORT BRAZIL

2022-55-BRA-SDG 15 / Association Help for Animals and Environment in Brazil

SDG 15: Life on land

Association Help for Animals and the Environment in Brazil, Switzerland

Country / Place

Brazil, João Pessoa

João Pessoa, officially Município de João Pessoa, is the capital of the state of Paraíba. The city is located on the Atlantic coast in the northeast of Brazil and had an estimated 820'00 inhabitants in July 2020. Before the arrival of the Europeans, the area was a popular settlement area, especially the Caetés tribe inhabited the banks of the Rio São Domingos.

The first Europeans to enter the area were the French, followed by the Portuguese and the Dutch. After the reconquest by the Portuguese from the Dutch, the city was given the name "Paraíba". In 1930, the governor of the state of Paraíba, João Pessoa, was assassinated. The city's population then decided to rename the city "João Pessoa".

 

General

Since 1992, the Hans Haller Foundation has been committed to helping the poor in north-eastern Brazil. Projects include family planning, placement of orphans and abandoned children with Brazilian foster mothers, child welfare and much more. In autumn 2020, Hans Haller founded the association Help for Animals and the Environment in Brazil, to additionally work for animal and environmental protection.

The association concerns itself with animals, by neutering street dogs and cats, caring for injured marine life, breeding and distributing native stingless bees, and engaging in other outreach activities. In environmental protection, they help reforest mangroves and Atlantic primeval forest. Waste management is also important for them, which means everything from educating children and providing information on prevention, to litter collection campaigns on beaches. 

Reforestation

Unfortunately, far too much forest is still being cleared in Brazil. Deforestation is also shown to accelerate climate change.

The Atlantic Forest is part of the João Pessoa area. Its surfaces are increasingly disappearing, since a large number of the settlements are located in this coastal area. Thanks to the special climatic conditions, many distinct species of trees grow here. In addition, there is a great variety of animals, many of which are endemic, i.e. they can only be found in the Atlantic Forest.

Targeted reforestation is not as easy as one might think; the association wants the seedlings to grow into trees and a forest that is not cleared after a few years, because people build settlements or need arable land. 

Project-support

Environmental protection / Reforestation

Since the beginning of 2021, the association has been cooperating with the Tabajara tribe. Their territory is located in a huge disused bamboo plantation in Conde, south of João Pessoa. In spring 2021, four hectares of bamboo were cleared, and seedlings of the Atlantic Forest were planted. To make the soil more fertile and to produce food, cassava plants, pumpkins, maize, and beans are planted in between. In March 2022, another five hectares of bamboo were cleared, and seedlings planted.

A lot can be achieved with little effort in the reforestation of the mangroves. Since February 2022, Hans Haller and other volunteers planted over 5’000 canetas. This is what the seedlings of the red mangrove are called. One just has to stick them in the sand, and they will develop well.

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