Candidatura Reserva da Biosfera - Santana Madeira Biosfera

The existing folkloric groups follow the aphorism: "We have the obligation to save
what is still likely to be saved, so that our grandchildren while living in a different
Portugal from ours, can maintain as Portuguese as ourselves and able to maintain their
cultural roots steeped in the social inheritance that the past has left us." (Jorge Dias).
To this cultural event various folkloric groups are invited, not only from Madeira, as
well as from mainland Portugal, among others.
Preserve and enhance the Cultural and Natural Heritage of the proposed Santana
Biosphere Reserve, will not only renew the local economy, but also its social
development.
The status of Santana Biosphere Reserve, Madeira, will increase a number of
initiatives for the conversion of activities of improvement of natural and cultural heritage.
3.3. LOGISTIC SUPPORT
The Municipality of Santana, due to its location, natural and socio-cultural features
has been the venue for the conduct of scientific work covering different specialties,
ranging from agricultural sciences to marine and terrestrial ecology, nature conservation,
culture and ethnography, as well as is a place where regular conservation and natural
resource management projects are developed, with particular emphasis on the endemic
biodiversity of Madeira and the Macaronesian biogeographical region.
In recent years, as a consequence of Madeira island resident scientific community
growth and with the support of local structures (public laboratories, universities and
research centers) some projects and initiatives have developed, which contribute to the
recognition of Santana as a true natural laboratory, outstanding above all restocking
projects and in situ conservation of endemic flora species (e.g. Goodyera macrophylla),
conservation of germplasm of local cultivars or initiatives such as the completion of the I
Macaronesian Environmental Education Meeting which prompted the creation of the
Macaronesia Network of Education and Environmental Information Centers (Madeira,
Application of Santana, Madeira to Biosphere Reserve – UNESCO - MAB 17