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others) and administrative area, as well as field activities 
assistants acting as park rangers, foremen ad reserve 
administrators. 
Among its initiatives are environmental education actions, an 
effort aimed at mantaining the Red-tailed Amazon (Amazona 
brasiliensis) out of the roll of species threatened with 
extinction, efforts for recovering and protection of native 
areas and an awareness campaign to avoid the environment 
contamination with heavy metals contained in cellular-phone 
batteries. 
From 1991 on SPVS elected as its prioritary actuation focus 
the EPA (Environmental 
Guaraquegaba, on the north seashore of Paraná state. By 
1999 the institution realized an important step in order to 
strengthen its actuation in the region, obtaining financial 
support to implement three long-term projects. These 
projects include degraded areas acquisition for the 
development of forests restoration projects (reforesting with 
native trees) and, together with the local communities, look 
for income generation alternatives compatible with nature 
preservation. These projects also have the purpose of helping 
in the fight against global warming. Thanks to the 
photosynthesis process, the growing trees will contribute to 
remove one of the gases (carbon dioxide) from the 
atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is the main component that 
causes the global warming. 
These projects are undertaken by SPVS, with partnership of 
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the funders American 
Electric Power (AEP), General Motors and Texaco. The 
projects, each one with a 40-year duration, count on 7 
thousand hectares in the Serra do Itaqui Natural Reserve, 10 
thousand hectares in the Cachoeira Natural Reserve and 1 
thousand hectares in the Morro da Mina Natural Reserve. 
  
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2. TECHNICS OF REMOTE SENSING AND 
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CLIMATE ACTION PROJECT IN THE COAST OF 
PARANÁ STATE 
The activities of the projects were grouped in three 
components: Feasibility Study, Development Planning and 
Phases of Project Execution. 
2.1 Feasibility Study 
2.1.1 Definition of the area in which the projects are to be 
elaborated 
The project sites were defined based on the potentialness for 
carbon sequestration and other relevant aspects to the 
projects that involve conservation actions priority. This work 
took into account the probable areas available for acquisition. 
24.1.1 Previous evaluation of the carbon 
sequestration potentialness — Brazil: for the purpose to 
evaluate the Brazilian vegetation remnant from 1991 to 1995, 
a GIS application was developed. Based on the annual 
increase and decrease of the vegetation, a potentialness index 
for the carbons sequestration for a specific region was 
stablished. Such application, developed in the Evenue 
language for ArcView 3.2, works with vegetation shape files 
and generates new shape files based on the results. These 
information helped in the evaluation and documentation of 
the execution feasibility of the project in the Guaraqueçaba 
EPA region. 
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2.1. 2 Other aspects to be considered: Besides the 
vegetation studies, the other aspects observed and defined as 
characteristic of the priority conservation areas through 
visual analysis of the orbital images and an institutional 
knowledge or the Guaraqueçaba EPA region were: Presence 
of buffalo raising, presence of furnaces for charcoal 
production (contribution to the deforestation), croplands of 
banana and ginger (high consumption of pesticides), soil 
erosion, pasture areas with Brachiaria sp (an exotic plant 
wich encroaches areas and is severely aggressive to the 
environment) and a pretty degraded landscape.