Projects

The Researchers House

Created for the purpose of hosting and facilitating academic research projects. It was the first idea to come to fruition, and serves as a platform for all other projects it is intended to host. It is the ideological seed. The house provides the infrastructure necessary for uncovering the reserve's biological diversity as well as its current state, so that direct strategic conservation actions can be implemented.

The inauguration of this lodge was celebrated at the first Friends of the Forest meeting was an event (know more), as well as gather and bring together people who wanted to protect and preserve forests and the environment in general. During the meeting participants took part in seed planting, knowledge exchange, and a playful "collective hug" for the reserve.

Projects – completed and underway at the Researcher's House:

Feb. 2012
Project about the Canoas River Basin, and the birthplace of the waters in the Santa Catarina state territory.
Responsible - Prof.Dr. Luiz Fernando Scheibe.

Nov. 2014
1º Photography course in photographing biodiversity research - PPBIO - nucleus south SC.
Responsible - Prof.Dr. Selvino Neckel de Oliveira.

April. 2015
Graduation group from biological sciences – UFSC Invertebrates.
Responsible - Prof . Dr. Selvino Neckel de Oliveira.

May. 2015
Researcher Dr. Juliano Bogoni, mastofauna of the Araucaria forest.
Responsible - Prof. Dr. Nivaldo Peroni.

Nov. 2015
Herptofauns.
Responsible Prof. Carol Angri.

Dec. 2015
Pos Graduation biological sciences in fungus, alga and plants.
Responsible – Prof. Maria Alice Neves.

Jan. 2016
Project Charão.
Responsible - Prof. Dr. Jaime Martinez and Prof. Nêmora Pauletti Prestes.

Out. 2016
Hands on Class for undergraduates of Biological Sciences. University of Pampa - São Gabriels.
Responsible - Prof. Marcia Spies.

Nov. 2016
Ecology Class for the undergraduates in Biological Science UFSC.
Responsible - Prof. Carol Angri.

Nov. 2016
Field day on local flora for professors of post graduate course in ecology – UFSC.
Responsible - Prof. Eduardo L.H. Giehl.

Dez. 2016
Field day for the study of amphibians and reptiles for professors of Responsible Biological Sciences UFRJ.
Responsible - Bruno Miranda.

Scientific Research

If you would like to conduct an academic research project at our facility please submit your idea to us (a letter of introduction, your resume/CV, and a photo identification).

Bring your course, project, participants, or be a volunteer in the area of your choosing at the reserve.

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Participate, do your trainee, be a volunteer.

Or engage in any of the projects foreseen by the reserve management plan:

Environmental Management Plan

Obtain financial resources

Biodiversity research & monitoring in the Reserve

Fire prevention & monitoring

Establish a Fire Brigade & acquisition of fire fighting equipment

Demark Nature Heritage Reserve property boundaries & install signs

Install a fence around the Nature Heritage Reserve’s boundaries

Block off & isolate legal Areas of Permanent Preservation

Promote protection of watershed springs

Monitor water quality

Soil conservation & erosion control

Install native tree nursery for restoration work

Fauna & Flora

Animal release & reintroduction

Promote partnerships with other legal Areas of Conservation and legal Heritage Reserves

Set up partnerships with universities and envir. agencies

Interact with neighboring community

Social communication

Obtain funding for eco projects

Promote the environmental value of natural resources

Train ecotourism guides

Control & eradicate exotic species in Reserve (such as Pinus tree species and wild hogs)

Connect Areas of Conservation & create ecological corridors

Agriculture & permaculture

Promote alternative techniques against field burning by locals

Promote alternative techniques against use of agrotoxic materials

Prevent hunting and fishing in the area of the Reserve

Inhibit growth of exotic plant species in the Reserve

Separate general trash and recyclable trash

Implement solar energy, cesspool, and eco technologies

Promote environmental education

Establish an academic and scientific research program

Install and maintain nature trails

Reclamation / ecological restoration of disturbed areas that were originally occupied by native plant species associated with the Araucaria Tree Forest

Study of regional history (oral and documented and artifacts), including indigenous peoples and European settlers and their cultures (primitive and ancestral wisdom) and regional landuse

Survey native species plants with pharmacological, phytotherapeutic, medicinal herbal and cosmetical properties

Research work on native plant species with nutritional, culinary, food seasoning and infusion properties

Valorize the floristic and native vegetation of the local community; study of its properties and sustainable uses

Promote environmental and ecological events at the Reserve

Did you know?

The RPPN GFA lies simultaneously in the outcrop zone and recharge area of the Guarani Aquifer. It is located at the highest point of the Santa Catarina State, at the Morro da Boa Vista (1827m above sea level), headwaters of the watershed of the Canoas River, and birthplace of its waters.