Biologist



"When we started to work on the hardpan in the Carajás National Forest, we initially thought that there were about 200, 300 species in that place, but we ended up identifying more than 1,100 species. We conduct a genetic study on plants, animals, fish and water; water has a particular importance in this process because it collects all the information from the forest. The DNA of all this biota surrounding is in the water. This work is called metagenomics or metabarcode, which means over studying a species to collect all biodiversity information with one single environmental sample. We cannot lose this genetic heritage before we understand it."Routes 

Guilherme Oliveira
Manager of Scientific Knowledge at ITV.



Displays the routes taken by the trucks within the hot zone.
"A mature forest system is the result of millions of years of learning accumulated through natural. By analyzing and learning from this system, we can create productive systems to meet our own needs. That is why this practice is considered to be a regenerative agriculture; we regenerate life in the soil and, from that, we grow."

Marco Oliveira Bellotti
Agricultural engineer from Earth University and consultant in Agroforestry Systems in Canaã dos Carajás.



"Extractivism is life: we live off the forest and in harmony with it. My dream is to see the cooperative becoming a reference not only for cooperatives in the state of Pará but also worldwide. There are people who depend on the forest standing."

Ana Paula Ferreira
President of the Extractive Cooperative of the Carajás National Forest.