In Cametá, Semas conducts Rural Environmental Registration for the Quilombola community of Boa Esperança
The CAR/PCT is developed by the traditional community, which can request support from the State and the quilombola movement in the implementation process.
With technical support from the Secretary of Environment and Sustainability of Pará (Semas), through the Regulariza Pará program, the Rural Environmental Registration (CAR) module for Peoples and Traditional Communities (PCT) of the Quilombola community of Boa Esperança, in the municipality of Cametá, northeastern Pará, was carried out, continuing the training process for members of quilombola communities for the CAR/PCT.
Semas develops, through the Regulariza Pará Program, a territorial learning methodology aimed at community leaders, aiming to carry out social mapping, and train them to use the PCT module, in order to continue the process of preparing and submitting the collective CAR in quilombola territories.
“The CAR of Boa Esperança benefits 172 quilombolas, around 60 families, favoring the planning of collective environmental management of natural resources, which is carried out by autonomous community instruments such as local territorial and environmental management plans, in addition to reinforcing territorial demarcation in favor of collective titling, as well as support for territorial defense to resolve conflicts generated by overlaps of individual CARs of rural properties, which are then canceled,” explains the manager of CAR/PCT at Semas, Thamiris Teixeira.
Dialogue – the process of preparing the CAR for quilombola communities is decided by the community members themselves, who hold consultations in informative meetings and leadership assemblies, where the community can deliberate whether they wish to receive support from Semas to register the collective registration in the PCT-Sicar/PA module.
Thamiris also emphasizes that when the community requests support, Semas promotes various activities to contribute with information and assist in the registration process, such as lectures and meetings to provide guidance, training, and encouragement to associations with organizations and representative entities of traditional communities.
The collective modality of the CAR/PCT is the result of the historical struggle of the communities and their representative entities of the quilombola, extractivist, settled, agro-extractivist, family farming, and other peasant territorialities movement.
“Today I want to express my joy and my thanks to Semas of the state, for giving me the opportunity to receive the quilombola CAR, we were in October, doing the training and now, from April 22 to 25, we managed to do our CAR, for our community, it is a very important advance, so we just want to thank Semas for this effort,” concludes Rosivaldo Gonçalves Moraes, president of the Association of Remnants of Quilombos of the Boa Esperança Community (ARQBE).
Text: Vinicius Silva/ Ascom Semas
