Ecological Restoration Project in the Atlantic Rainforest
Alexandra Andrade Crescente Fertil is an environmental professional with a background in geology and environmental sciences. She is dedicated to conservation efforts, with a focus on biodiversity, watershed conservation, and carbon sequestration. Alexandra's current project involves coordinating an ecological restoration productive chain in the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil, aiming to address the diminishing rainforest area and water demands in the region. She collaborates with public and private organizations to implement restoration initiatives, including seed collection, technology application for soil restoration, and monitoring forest growth impacts on water quality.
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ALEXANDRA ANDRADE CRESCENTE FERTIL alexandraandrade19@gmail.com IPROMO Bioeconomy in mountain areas an opportunity for local development Pieve Tesino /Ormea 18 June -02 July 2018
Education Graduate Degree - GEOLOGY (Brazil) Pos-graduate - Environmental Sciences and Technology (The Netherlands) Master Degree - (Brazil) PhD (The Netherlands) - incomplete Employment and main activities Since 2000 (working for NGOs): developing assesment and plans for biodiversity conservation, watershed conservation, carbon sequestration, Ecological Service Payment Projects Motivating and putting together organizations to implement conservation projects Earlier: researcher, lecturer, consultant in subjects such as environmental impact assessment, management planning
Other interests (volunteer work, hobbies etc.) Yoga Mountain hiking Cooking
Presentation of a project you are working on 1/3 Conception and coordination of an ecological restoration productive chain in the Atlantic Rainforest , Brazil(2016-2018) Motivation: 7% of the Rainforest is left; the most populated area in Brazil with high demand for water Focus Area: Paraiba River Basin and Mantiqueira Mountain Range (states of S o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais) Who is involved: public and private organizations dealing with ecological restoration
Presentation of a project you are working on 2/3 Main Activities (2016-2017) document was produced) Ongoing activities (2018) (1) organizing a project to recover threatened species of the Atlantic Rainforest (mainly timber species), involving seed collectors and small land owners: pomares de sementes , collecting seeds in public and private protected areas (2) negotiating a project with a Technological Park to appling technology in the selection of the most viable seeds to reproduce the forest, to recover eroded and poor soils, to plant in remote and fragile areas (high areas); to monitore the forest growing and its effects on water quality and quantity (1) Motivating organizations, researchers and technicians (2) Promoting meetings and worshops with stakeholders (3) Doing an assessment of the restoration productive chain (a
