PLANGEA is subsidising the prioritisation of areas for ecological recovery in the Pampa, Caatinga, and Pantanal with different prioritisation criteria for each region. For example, the qualitative water balance is taken into account in the Pampa analyses, while the fire trend is used in the Pantanal. The work is being developed within the scope of the GEF Terrestrial project.
Using PLANGEA, priority areas for biodiversity conservation will be identified within private properties located in five of the six Brazilian biomes (Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Pantanal, Pampa, and Caatinga). The initiative will be developed under the project "GEF Private Areas - Conserving biodiversity and rural landscapes".
In this project, PLANGEA was used to identify priority areas for restoration in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest, considering its benefits for biodiversity, climate change mitigation, cost minimisation, and conservation of water resources in the case of the Atlantic Forest. The objective was to subsidise the execution and multiplication of reforestation projects in the biomes.
PLANGEA will be used to identify priority areas for mitigating impacts on biodiversity resulting from the mining actions of Norsk Hydro - an aluminum and energy producer company - in Paragominas, Pará. The mapping will take into account two possibilities of compensation: (i) recovery of local biodiversity and (ii) conservation of forest remnants.
PLANGEA's spatial prioritisation was the basis for identifying priority areas for forest recovery in the Amazon and also indicated which of them should be restored first. The results showed that the recovery of 10% of these areas would allow the generation of R$132 billion through the commercialisation of carbon credits. The study was the result of the Amazon 2030 project.