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In the Porangaba community, in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (where 3,500 families live), in Acre, the 38 -year -old rural worker Dione Torquato ensures that working and life conditions have improved over the past two decades, but the scenario still has a lot of difficulties. 
The population, which works in artisanal fishing, rubber tap and in the productions of nuts and acai, according to what they believe, has seen public policies even need different improvements to be entitled to needs in the territory.
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For him, the transformation has been clear since the creation of the Chico Mendes Institute of Conservation and Biodiversity (ICMBio), which turns 18 on Thursday (28). In an event held yesterday (27), the worker was present, listened to authorities, and assessed that the agency has been fundamental for promotion, production support, training courses, aid in monitoring and controlling territories.
The secretary general of the National Council of Extractive Populations, Dione Torquato, at the 18th anniversary ceremony of ICMBio. Photo VALTER CAMPINATO/AGENCY BRAZIL
Priorities
Among the priorities, in the evaluation of the worker, who is secretary general of the National Council of Extractive Populations, are digital inclusion, the improvement of education, work and income policies to keep the younger ones in reserves.
“Young people want to stay and keep doing their activities with other opportunities as well.”
At the commemorative event at ICMBio, Minister Marina Silva, the Environment and Climate Change, also highlighted the role of the institution for the conservation of biodiversity in the challenging scenario of the 21st century.
She understands that the creation of the institute represented historical evolution for the country for making practical the ideal of acting in a technical and sensitive way for biodiversity.
“Managers can be left, right -wing, downtown. What can not be neglestials about the environment,” said the minister.
9.5% of the territory
In an interview with Agência Brasil, the president of ICMBio, Mauro Pires stated that the institution came to age with the responsibility of taking care of 344 conservation units, or approximately 9.5% of the Brazilian territory.
“Our great challenge is to account for the management of these large areas and to do this work so that biodiversity is conserved.”
Beyond the commitment to the conservation of habitatPires, who is a training sociologist, said that the institute’s work must respect the rights of people living from extractivism.
Conservation units suffer from different impacts, he recalls.
“In some places, it is an agricultural activity, in other cases it is industrial activity. It is important that the business sector is part of the solution. And we work with them from this perspective.”
Planning
No habitathe understands that deforestation in the Amazon, the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest, and in Caatinga worries the technicians of the organization.
“We have action plans aimed at reducing threats to vulnerable species. Regarding deforestation, we do intense work of monitoring, field surveillance.”
To account for these activities, ICMBio has about 1,500 servers and received the reinforcement of 350 new employees who joined a public tender. “We want to expand this number because it is a very large territory,” said the president of the institution.
