Amazon Guard
People who preserve region of the greatest on Earth biodiversity are living in vulnerable conditions without access to education, medical care, running water, electricity, sewerage or even toilets. Half of their agro extractivism production is being lost.
A photovoltaic solar energy powered boats operating in the Amazon Estuary will replace the highly polluting, dangerous and expensive in maintenance gasoline engine boats raising the quality of living of those who feed the city by bringing sustainable energy, health care, education, internet and improving food production.
Solution can be applied in any riverside community and most of therainforests are located near the equator where there is the strongest solar radiation.
Indirectly it will affect the rest of the world and global human population, because protected forests will continue to regulate the world's oxygen, carbon and water cycles and stabilize the climate on our planet for us and generations to come.
CHALLENGES
1. Currently used in Amazon Biome diesel engine boats are polluting the environment, making noise well above the healthy limits, they are demanding expensive maintenance and are creating danger of common in young girls scalping accidents (when the hair gets inside of the engine).
2. People which preserve regions of the greatest on Earth biodiversity are living in vulnerable conditions without running water, electricity, sewerage or even toilets and without access to health care and education.
3. Agro extractivists today are wasting half of their production because of the long distance to the merchant, difficulties in storage and disrupted value chain.
This problems affect most of the world's tropical forest inhabitants. Only in Amazon Rainforest is living nearly 40 million people - most of them in the cities and they are depending on the production of the riverside communities. Working on development of the communities in need means to match the gap between city and rural population and to improve the quality of living for both.
OVERVIEW
Proposed solution is based on the experience from multiple visits to the Amazon traditional indigenous and spiritual communities - people living for many generations in the forest. Leaders of these communities, government representatives and social workers are actively involved in the development of this project. Testing the prototype during the first quarter of 2022 will allow us to make improvements and implement solar energy powered boats at a bigger scale.
LOCATION AND CONTEXT
The prototype will be run to serve the population on the world's biggest river island - Marajó, in a Brazilian state of Pará and on a few other islands in the Amazon Estuary and around the Charapucu State Park. Place with the greatest biodiversity on Earth and where new species are still waiting to be discovered and at the same time a region that has the lowest Human Development Index ( HDI) in Brazil.
Municipality of Afuá has a population of 39,000 inhabitants (mostly living in rural area), an area of 837 thousand hectares (IBGE, 2018) and 99% of its forests are preserved (Inpe, 2017).
Rivers here have the function of roads and highways. Surprisingly they don't have any source and are connecting together in a form of labyrinth of thousands of canals.
So called várzea is a periodically flooded Amazonian Rainforest, where Atlantic Ocean's waters mix with the Amazon River and it's tides are rising and falling daily by 3 meters in a rhythm of the moon cycles.
People live in simple stilt houses built by the rivers banks, in the middle of the native, wild jungle, in a distance between half day to one day away by boat from the nearest town.
Local communities existence depends on fishing and on the standing forest production: nuts and fruits harvesting.
IMPACT
Three first built solar energy powered boats will attend over 500 Amazon tradicional families of agroextrativists (approx. 3000 people) and help to protect over 100.000 hectares of native forest and 30.000 hectares of agroforest (together 300.000 acres or 20 times size of Manhattan).
Indirectly it will affect the rest of the world and global human population, because protected Amazon Forest will continue to regulate the world's oxygen, carbon and water cycles and stabilize the climate on our planet for us and generations to come.
OVERVIEW
Proposed solution is based on the experience from multiple visits to the Amazon traditional indigenous and spiritual communities - people living for many generations in the forest. Leaders of these communities, government representatives and social workers are actively involved in the development of this project. Testing the prototype during the first quarter of 2022 will allow us to make improvements and implement solar energy powered boats at a bigger scale.
LOCATION AND CONTEXT
The prototype will be run to serve the population on the world's biggest river island - Marajó, in a Brazilian state of Pará and on a few other islands in the Amazon Estuary and around the Charapucu State Park. Place with the greatest biodiversity on Earth and where new species are still waiting to be discovered and at the same time a region that has the lowest Human Development Index ( HDI) in Brazil.
Municipality of Afuá has a population of 39,000 inhabitants (mostly living in rural area), an area of 837 thousand hectares (IBGE, 2018) and 99% of its forests are preserved (Inpe, 2017).
Rivers here have the function of roads and highways. Surprisingly they don't have any source and are connecting together in a form of labyrinth of thousands of canals.
So called várzea is a periodically flooded Amazonian Rainforest, where Atlantic Ocean's waters mix with the Amazon River and it's tides are rising and falling daily by 3 meters in a rhythm of the moon cycles.
People live' by the rivers banks, in the middle of the native, wild jungle, in a distance between half day to one day away by boat from the nearest town.
Local communities}existence depends on fishing and on the standing forest production: nuts and fruits harvesting.
IMPACT
Three first built solar energy powered boats will attend over 500 Amazon tradicional families of agroextrativists (aprox. 3000 people) and help to protect over 100.000 hectares of native forest and 30.000 hectares of agroforest (together 300.000 acres or 20 times size of Manhattan).
Indirectly it will affect the rest of the world and global human population, because protected Amazon Forest will continue regulate the world's oxygen, carbon and water cycles and stabilize the climate on our planet for us and generations to come.
- Create scalable economic opportunities for local communities, including fishing, timber, tourism, and regenerative agriculture, that are aligned with thriving and biodiverse ecosystems
The riverside communities around the world are those who protect the richest in biodiversity areas. They usually live in vulnerable conditions which puts in risk their existence and the existence of remaining forests with thousands of species of plants and animals.
Development of new way of transportation based on solar photovoltaic energy will raise this communities social economic conditions and will guarantee financial independence by supporting traditional activities based on the standing forest (fishing, nuts and fruits harvesting) and creating new sources of income based on bioeconomy, eco tourism and scientific research.
- Concept: An idea being explored for its feasibility to build a product, service, or business model based on that idea.
The problems of riverside communities were identified during multiple visits to different parts of the Amazon since 2016. Solution came up in the beginning of this year, during two visits to the world's biggest river island - Marajó, in Brazilian state of Pará and a few other islands in the Amazon Estuary and around the Charapucu State Park. It is an unexplored place with the greatest biodiversity on Earth and where new species are still waiting to be discovered.
We are ready now to move forward the concept stage of development, build the prototype and test it in real life conditions with the traditional Amazon communities.

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