The Extremo Norte do Tocantins Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista do Extremo Norte do Tocantins) is an

extractive reserve An extractive reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista or RESEX) is a type of sustainable use protected area in Brazil. The land is publicly owned, but the people who live there have the right to traditional extractive practices, such as hunting, fishin ...

in the state of

Tocantins Tocantins () is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is the newest state, formed in 1988 and encompassing what had formerly been the northern two-fifths of the state of Goiás. Tocantins covers and had an estimated population of 1,496,880 in 2 ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Extremo Norte do Tocantins Extractive Reserve is divided between the municipalities of

Sampaio Sampaio is a municipality in the state of Tocantins in the Northern region of Brazil. The municipality contains 6% of the Extremo Norte do Tocantins Extractive Reserve, created in 1992. See also *List of municipalities in Tocantins This is ...

(6.12%) and

Carrasco Bonito Carrasco Bonito is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Tocantins Tocantins () is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is the newest state, formed in 1988 and encompassing what had formerly been the northern two-fifths of the state of Goi ...

(93.88%) in the state of Tocantins. It has an area of . The reserve lies to the north of the TO-201 highway, south of the

Tocantins River The Tocantins River ( pt, Rio Tocantins, link=no , , Parkatêjê: ''Pyti'' ɨˈti is a river in Brazil, the central fluvial artery of the country. In the Tupi language, its name means "toucan's beak" (''Tukã'' for "toucan" and ''Ti'' for "beak" ...

History

The Extremo Norte do Tocantins Extractive Reserve was created by federal decree 535 of 20 May 1992. On 9 December 2005 the Minister of the Environment appointed representatives of agencies and NGOs to elaborate the proposal for occupying the territory of the reserve. The deliberative council was created on 23 May 2011. The reserve is administered by the

Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation ( Portuguese: ''Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade'', ICMBio) is the Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), ...

(ICMBio). It is classed as

IUCN protected area category IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The enlisting of such areas is part ...

VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources). Its purpose is to protect the livelihoods and culture of the traditional extractive population, and ensure the sustainable use of natural resources of the unit.

Economy

As of 2009 the population of the reserve was fairly young. About 25% of the population is illiterate and 32% have no more than three years of education, mostly women. About 30% of girls do not attend school but help the family in production activities. The reserve is served by health centres in the Carrasco Bonito municipal seat. The main economic activity is processing and marketing of

babassu ''Attalea speciosa'', the babassu, babassu palm, ''babaçu, or cusi'', is a palm native to the Amazon Rainforest region in South America. The babassu palm is the predominant species in the Maranhão Babaçu forests of Maranhão and Piauí states ...

palm fruit, mainly by the women. The men cultivate rice, beans, maize and cassava, mainly for their family consumption. A 2015 study reported that after 22 years the families of the reserve still lived outside it in surrounding communities. The result had been constant competition for resources and disputes with farmers, and steady clearance of the babassu to expand pasturage for livestock.

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* * * * {{authority control 1992 establishments in Brazil Extractive reserves of Brazil Protected areas of Tocantins