Brasilia, Dec.2nd, 2019 – During the week of November 26 to 30, Timo Schönfeld, technical expert of the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources – Latin America and the Caribbean of the German Development Bank (KfW), led the mid-term evaluation mission of the Bioamazon Project. He was accompanied in some sessions by Martin Schröder and Miguel Lanna, Director and Project Manager of KfW-Brazil, respectively.
The Secretary General Alexandra Moreira, the Executive Director, Carlos Lazary, the Administrative Director, César De Las Casas, the Project Planning and Project Coordinator of the Technical Support Unit (UTA), Diego Pacheco and, for the Project Executing Unit team, Mrs. Ximena Buitrón, Coordinator, Mr. Mauro Ruffino, Technical Specialist, and Mr. Sergio Paz Soldán, Administrative, Financial and Procurement Manager participated by the Permanent Secretariat of the ACTO (PS/ACTO).
The teams held several work sessions to assess the status of the project, culminating in a proposal of commitments from the management team, which will support the efforts of the Executive Unit to improve its implementation.
During the evaluation, visits were made to the Foreign Trade Coordination (COMEX), the General Coordination for the Use of Biodiversity and Foreign Trade (CGMOC/DBFLO), the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) and the Forest Products Laboratory (LPF), of the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB), to know the use of the goods delivered within the framework of the project.
The representatives of COMEX (Natalia von Gal Milanezi and Claudia Correia de Mello), Technical Focal Points of the project, made a presentation, including photos of the equipment that is installed at the headquarters of IBAMA and in 16 states of Brazil.
Lidiane Moretto, director participated in the LPF; Alexandre Bahia Gotinjo, responsible for the area of anatomy and morphology together with Fernanda Piccolo Pieruzzi, researcher in the area of chemistry and Jez Wilian Batista Braga, professor at the University of Brasilia (UnB). They commented on the importance of the acquired equipment, the relative advances in their respective areas and a demonstration of the use of the scanning electron microscope – MEB.
In both cases, the importance of the teams for the actions that allow improving scientific research, species data and traceability mechanisms to combat environmental crimes in the Amazon Region was highlighted.
Likewise, ideas for additional uses and plans that have to do with regional training, expansion of species groups for taxonomic identification and actions to encourage and improve reference collections emerged.
The Regional Project for the Management, Monitoring and Control of Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Threatened by Trade (Bioamazon Project – Conservation of species threatened by unsustainable trade) aims to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of management, monitoring and control of wild fauna and flora species threatened by trade in the ACTO Member Countries, in order to contribute to the conservation of Amazonian Biodiversity and especially of the species included in CITES.
The Project is the result of a Financial Cooperation Agreement between the Federal Government of Germany, through the KfW and the ACTO.
Source: OTCA
