Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station
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The Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station () is an ecological station in the state of
Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – ) is one of the states of Brazil, the List of Brazilian states by area, third largest by area, located in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible ...
, Brazil.


Location

The Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station (ESEC) has an area of . It is in the municipality of
Colniza Colniza is a municipality in the States of Brazil, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Demographics Colniza has the highest homicide rate in Brazil with 165 deaths per year per 100 thousand inhabitants. It is the westernmost and largest (by area) muni ...
in the state of Mato Grosso. It is bordered by the
Tucumã State Park The Tucumã State Park () is a State park (Brazil), state park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Location The Tucumã State Park is in the Colniza municipality of Mato Grosso. It has an area of . The park is bounded by the border with the sta ...
to the west, by the Roosevelt River to the east, and by the border between the states of Mato Grosso and Amazonas to the north. It adjoins the
Manicoré State Forest The Manicoré State Forest () is a state forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Manicoré State Forest is in the Novo Aripuanã municipality of Amazonas. It has an area of . The Roosevelt River, running north from the state o ...
in Amazonas, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2005. The MT-206 road runs through the southern part of the ESEC. The ESEC is home to 30 people from one family, living in three communities. There are two archaeological sites in the unit. The Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station is a unit of the Southern Amazon Mosaic of conservation units. The ESEC would be in the proposed South Amazon Ecotones Ecological Corridor. It is the responsibility of the Conservation Units Coordinator (CUCO) of the Mato Grosso Secretariat of State for the Environment. The ESEC is supported by the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program.


History

A series of executive decrees and state laws have defined and redefined the area of the Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station. The ecological station was created by decree 1.798 of 4 November 1997 with an area of about with the purpose of conserving samples of the ecological systems in their natural state, ensuring biological diversity and providing controlled opportunities for education and scientific research. Law 7162 of 23 August 1999 created the ecological station with an area of about in the municipality of Aripuanã. Law 8.680 of 13 July 2007 expanded the ecological station to an area of about , and also expanded the Guariba-Roosevelt extractive reserve to about in the Colniza municipality. The expansion was to compensate for settlements in the "4 Reservas" area of the municipalities of Terra Nova do Norte and Nova Guarita. The extractive reserve was later occupied by illegal squatters, and was revoked by a judicial order in 2013, confirmed by the state legislature in January 2015. The judge stated that the lack of environmental protection in the extractive reserve was causing it to be devastated, and it could not be considered compensation for the loss of the "4 Reservas". Law 10261 of 22 January 2015 repealed Law 8.680 of 13 July 2007, returning the ecological reserve to an area of . Decree 58 of 13 April 2015 redefined the area of the ecological station as about with a perimeter of in the municipality of
Colniza Colniza is a municipality in the States of Brazil, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Demographics Colniza has the highest homicide rate in Brazil with 165 deaths per year per 100 thousand inhabitants. It is the westernmost and largest (by area) muni ...
.


Environment

The Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station is in the Amazon biome. The ecological station is in one of the most pristine areas of Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso, away from the zone of agricultural expansion, with sparse population and little deforestation. The land in the south of the unit has low fertility and contains large areas of flooded land, helping to protect the unit. Altitudes generally range from , but the Serra da Fortaleza rises to and the Serra do Pirangueiro rises to . The terrain contains plateaus with steep edges, hills, valleys and plains. Vegetation is mainly rainforest with tall trees of varying density in the wetter areas. Higher up the vegetation is mainly
cerrado The Cerrado () is a vast ecoregion of Tropics, tropical savanna in central Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Paraná ...
. The main problem in the reserve is predatory fishing, which is estimated to take at least three tons of fish annually. The main threats in the region are logging and
illegal mining Illegal mining is mining activity that is undertaken without state permission. Illegal mining is the extraction of precious metals/rocks without following the proper procedures to participate in legal mining activity. These procedures include pe ...
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