Counting with strong participation, ended on Tuesday (August 12th), the Jalapão Mosaic Seminar, promoted by the Superior School of the Judges of the State of Tocantins (Esmat), which brought together government representatives, managers of protected areas, civil society, associations, Quilombola and traditional communities, indigenous peoples, culture points, academia, magistrates, civil servers, prosecutors, lawyers and students.
The meeting promoted an exchange of experiences and reflections on the integrated and participatory management of the territory, focusing on the conservation of socio-biodiversity and the strengthening of the rights of traditional populations, and reaffirmed the commitment of Esmat to promote social and inter-institutional dialogue and contribute to sustainable development, the defense of human rights and respect for indigenous and traditional peoples.
At the end of the seminar, Judge Wellington Magalhães, deputy director of ESMAT, highlighted the importance of the inter-institutional dialogue on environmental issues.
“The Judiciary is just a gear of a system involving Advocacy, State Prosecution, Ombudsman, police forces, environmental and land agencies. Our role, through the judicial schools, is to maintain this dialogue, as today we had the opportunity to do by discussing relevant issues for the resumption of the Jalapão Mosaic", he said.
For Rejane Ferreira Nunes, APA (Area of Environmental Protection) supervisor of Jalapão, the seminar represented an advance. "It was a great opportunity to discuss the potential and challenges of the territory. I am optimistic, believing that a good route is the resumption of the Mosaic Council, fundamental to integrate all actors, despite the difficulties of distance and logistics", she said.
Ilana Ribeiro Cardoso, project director of the Mumbuca quilombola village, highlighted the impact of the discussions on the communities. "The debate is important to rethink tourism in Jalapão and the management of conservation units, considering the growth of environmental impacts. It was a moment of learning and exchange of knowledge, which we hope to repeat", she recalled.
Tributes
During the Jalapão Mosaic Seminar, Esmat paid a special tribute with the award of the Esmat Medallion to personalities and institutions that stood out in the defense of the environment and territorial management. Marcos Roberto Pinheiro, for his work in the planning, coordination and implementation of environmental protection and territorial planning projects in Brazil; João Guilherme Nunes Cruz, the commitment to the environmental and territorial management of the Indigenous and Quilombola Peoples of the state of Tocantins; Rejane Ferreira Nunes, for the tireless struggle in the protection and conservation of the biodiversity of the Cerrado biome of the state of Tocantins; and the Advisory Council of Mosaico Gurupi, for the relevant role in the management of protected areas, strengthening supervision, environmental monitoring, encouraging sustainable productive activities and social participation.
At the end, the Declaration of the Seminar was released, which lists central propositions:
- Resumption of the Mosaic Council of Jalapão, with qualified representation of the quilombola communities.
- Urgency in the homologation and titling of quilombola territories, strengthening productive chains and community-based tourism.
- Control of disorderly and predatory tourism, prioritizing community protagonism.
- Monitoring of environmental licensing, with social participation and prior, free and informed consultation.
- Expansion of integrated fire management, with support to community and volunteer brigades.
- Strategies to address the water crisis and climate change, including watershed committees and environmental education programs.
