Indigenous people articulate the creation of a Seed Network in Roraima telegram Join our Telegram channel! telegram Indigenous people from three indigenous lands in the Serra da Lua Region articulate the creation of the Roraima Seed Network Malacacheta and Tabalascada met with representatives from the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) at the 'I Seminar on Native Seed Production and Ecological Restoration of Roraima' to define the next steps of the project The event took place in the Tabalascada Indigenous Land in the municipality of Cantá - the same city where the other indigenous lands that make up the project are located participated in the event that took place on May 17 “We aim to achieve continuous work. He arrives in good time, after a fire season and will add a lot to the indigenous community but we still hadn't realized the importance of discussing restoring,” said César da Silva the seeds collected will be used to restore areas indicated by the communities as priority spaces to be restored With progress in structuring the network's work the seeds can be sold to anyone interested - public authorities for example - in restoring Roraima with native seeds from farmland and the forest the indigenous people were able to ask questions about the Seed Network make suggestions and explain the necessary precautions to move forward with the work within the three indigenous lands initially reached by the project.   especially for women who have been collecting seeds since they were children we increase our knowledge to restore degraded areas This will also help us with our traditional medicine technical advisor for seed production and ecological restoration and the ISA coordinator in Roraima Lidia Montanha Castro were responsible for passing the dialogue on the project with the indigenous council of Roraima (CIR) defining the Serra da Lua region .  Afterwards, a long dialogue with the tuxauas of the Tabalascada, Canauanim and Malacacheta communities, guided by the Consultation Protocol of the Serra da Lua Region students and residents of the three communities.  which basically has two axes: collection of native seeds and ecological restoration The idea was to explain and everything we do today will be based on these explanations of the project and questions from the communities All of this will guide our future actions” explained the relationship between forest and farming with ecosystem services and carbon She pointed out that ensuring the conservation and restoration of these ecosystems guarantees several benefits is the element that makes up everything that is alive it is because photosynthesis occurs: the plant captures the carbon that is in the form of CO2 in the air and incorporates it into its own growth With a presence in 24 networks in different territories in Brazil Redário's purpose is to provide the necessary support for the production of native seeds boost the market and make the best seeds viable for the restoration of each ecosystem There are more than 1.200 people involved in collecting seeds Redário sold more than 16 tons of 170 types of native seeds and in the previous year it generated income for more than a thousand families from almost 50 communities ISA and its partners have restored more than 11.000 hectares of forests using the Muvuca method the new scenario requires experimentation to understand the best way to work with native seeds “What we will have to learn is which species are most important for restoring vegetation and we will do this with the knowledge that indigenous communities already have” the technical knowledge acquired in other networks can be used in the first phase but the land needs more than trees to be restored and new recovery techniques will need to be created “A very important part of the farmland is this carpet of native plants even the questions that appeared because I realized that they were from people who already imagined themselves doing this work,” she said ISA will promote training workshops within the communities themselves the restoration sites and who the collectors will be will be defined Through the Native Seed Production and Ecological Restoration project in Roraima, supported by the European Union, ISA also supported indigenous communities in the Serra da Lua Region in combating forest fires and drought during the record number of hot spots with donations of food The most relevant news for you to form your opinion on the socio-environmental agenda LAST ISSUE The three-year-old's penis was mutilated by "experienced" Dr Pedro Abrantes in  Malacacheta, Brazil, last month. Alberthy Camargos, the tot's distraught dad, told how he discovered the blunder when a nurse changed the bandages. He wept: "It was only a couple hours after the surgery. When they lifted the gauze there was no visible penis, just a stump. "I went crazy and dropped to the ground. I went into shock. I tried to move, but I was paralysed and needed to be supported by nurses." "The doctor assured me that everything was normal. He told me that he had removed the excess skin and the penis would reappear in 10 days. "I felt disgusted by the answer. They were treating me like a fool and I lost total confidence in the medical team. "I knew just by looking and from hearing my son’s cries of pain and seeing the disorientated state he was in, that the surgery had gone wrong and my son’s body had been mutilated." A medical report into the blunder said there had been: "laceration of the foreskin skin with open and bleeding cavernous bodies (spongy-like areas)… and the inadvertent partial amputation of the penis… (leaving) the base of the penis". A spokesperson for Dr Carlos Marx Municipal Hospital said an internal enquiry is underway and the medical team that assisted Dr Abrantes is under investigation. Mariana Grassi said: "We have collected all the documents surrounding this case and we are now in the process of hearing testimonies from those involved "We need to establish whether Dr Abrantes who died under non-suspicious circumstances was responsible solely for the medical error or whether other professionals were involved."