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Since these private areas do not belong to the State of Amazonas, they are excluded
from the project, and the carbon contained in their forests will not be accounted.
However, ongoing activities in these areas can impact the project area inside the reserve,
and thus will receive special attention in the activities included in the monitoring
plan.
2.3 Deforestation
The deforested areas within the Juma Reserve were limited to 6,493 hectares
(1.1% of the Juma Reserve area) until June 2006 (INPE, 2008). The methodology used
to quantify deforestation within the project area using the PRODES system is described
in the Annex VIII of the Project Design Document (for more details, see full PDD at
www.fas-amazonas.org).
The actual patches of deforestation in the project area result basically from medium
to large scale deforestation in areas illegally occupied by land grabbers and cattle
ranchers along the sides of the road connecting Novo Aripuanã to Apuí (AM-174),
which crosses the project area in a North to South direction (Figure 07); and land clearing
for small scale agriculture practiced by the local communities.
Figure 07 – Deforested Areas in The Juma Reserve untiL 2006 (based on LandSat imagery, INPE 2008)