RESEX RIO JAUAPERI / AMAZONAS
The Rio Jauperi/Baixo Rio Branco RESEX is located between the states of Roraima and Amazonas and access to the territory is from the municipality of Novo Airão, which is 200km from Manaus. There, riverside communities came together to fight against illegal fishing of fish and turtles and, in 2001, created the Association of Artisans of the Jaueperi River, AARJ. Through sustainable crafts, members offer the riverside population a socioeconomic alternative to illegal fishing.
Over time, other creative solutions were developed to increase AARJ's fight on the Jauaperi River, such as the Project for the Protection of Turtles (Turtles) - Tracaja, Irapuca and Tartaruga da Amazônia - and the managed Pirarucu fishery, which they they call it the Lagos Protection Project. In 2017, after years of struggle by ARRJ, the decree that approved the creation of the Rio Jauperi/Lower Rio Branco Extractive Reserve was finally published in the Official Gazette of the Union.
The Biguá Project has been operating in the region since May 2021, providing legal and communication support to those living alongside the Jauaperi River, who have the assistance of Professor and lawyer Octávio Ferraz to legalize their demands. A documentary entitled THE LAST RESERVE was made by filmmaker Patrick Granja in collaboration with AARJ, as well as an extensive report, prepared by journalist Luis Patriani.
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The medium-length documentary has its premiere scheduled for AUGUST 28, AT CINEART UFF , in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, as part of the Festival Internacional Filmambiente program. Check out the OFFICIAL TRAILER for the documentary below.
With the efforts of the Biguá project, the struggle of AARJ riverside dwellers will continue to echo in different spaces. In 2025, with your help, we will launch our virtual crafts store and make sustainable crafts produced by AARJ available on our platform. 100% of the resources will be passed on to producers and the virtual store will have items produced on all work fronts of the Biguá Project