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IVDS has a set of projects and initiatives that are aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, coordinated by the United Nations. In this context, it seeks, through its actions, to promote the protection of tropical forests, especially the Amazon, Atlantic Forest and Cerrado.
Other important environmental components that are on the IVDS radar are water resources and aquatic ecosystems, both in inland and marine waters.
By the way, we have worked in several partnerships with a view to solving problems related to invasive corals, as in the specific case of CORAL-SOL (Tubastraea Coccinea and Tubastraea Tagusensis) and other living beings that move artificially, in ship hulls, for example, between the various ecosystems causing damage to local marine life.
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Images 1 and 2 show CORAL-SOL, which, despite being beautiful, is aggressive and destroys the natural corals on the Brazilian coast, and therefore causes destructive damage to marine life. Originally from Asia, it needs to be contained. The techniques currently used for its containment are palliative and end up expanding its spread in the Brazilian marine ecosystem. IVDS, together with the company Tecno-Diver, has an effective solution to the problem: the Subtec System. An unprecedented technology that sucks and sterilizes the disseminating effect of said coral. Image 3 shows part of the invasive coral disposal process.
In this context, it is also worth remembering the challenges related to invasive bivalve mollusks and invasive mussels in dams and hydroelectric plants in Brazil (which has also occurred in fresh waters in Europe), the target of the Institute's efforts to solve the problem, in partnership with Techno-Diver. Below you can see Image 4, freshwater mussel photo (bivalve mollusk).
Bivalve mollusk – typical of fresh waters
IVDS projects advance in other fields of knowledge and in facing socio-environmental challenges.
It is important to highlight that the Cerrado or Brazilian Savanna, for the most part, is located in the Central-West region of Brazil, in places considered the cradles of Brazilian waters, due to their location in plateau regions, such as Aguas Emendadas, in the Federal District, National Park Chapada dos Veadeiros and surrounding areas, among other areas that help in the formation of important river basins such as the Amazon and Tocantins Basins, Paranah and São Francisco Basins, which make life possible for important Brazilian biomes such as the Forest Amazon, Atlantic Forest, the Cerrado itself and the Caatinga.
The Cerrado biome has been suffering serious environmental damage such as illegal fires and indiscriminate expansion of soybean cultivation, threatening these water sources that feed river basins that support tropical forests.
Image of Aguas Emendadas Biological Station, Federal District
We are not against soy production that complies with environmental laws and our projects show the advantage of diversifying the production system, with the implementation of multifunctional properties and a high level of productive biodiversity.
It is viable to implement diversified production solutions: good for the environment and for the “pocket” (See image 5, above)
Thus, within its activities, IVDS has worked to combat pollution and unsustainable consumption And also, in the Amazon, Cerrado, Caatinga and Atlantic Forest biomes and for this reason, it becomes inevitable to work with local communities, in most of them lack environmental sanitation, such as: drinking water, sewage collection and treatment, rainwater management, solid waste sustainable management.
And also, activities in the social field, which promote the achievement of “zero” hunger; the reduction of malnutrition; reduction of social inequalities; sustainable food production and consumption; the search for unique health; the production of clean energy; biodiversity conservation; the generation of decent work and income; productive social inclusion; the promotion, development and implementation of regenerative and organic agriculture as well as projects of agriculture in ecological transition; sustainable local territorial development; in reducing carbon emissions in agricultural, industrial, services and housing production processes. Access to decent housing; access for integral health: mind, feelings and body. The improvement of logistics that allows the safe transit of people, goods and services, and the continuous search for an increasingly circular and sustainable economy.
Human life is embedded in the environment, therefore, communities and the environment are intertwined in a biosystemic relationship: inseparable, interacting and inter-influential.
Based on these principles and initiatives, we believe that each citizen can contribute to the respect and promotion of LIFE on this finite Planet, home to all of us, which deserves urgent protection and socio-environmental responsibility. Some can contribute with little and it will be a lot due to the situation they find themselves in and the greatness of their awarenesses. Others can contribute more and in the same way we will be eternally grateful and aware of the greatness that their level of socio-environmental awareness and responsibility represents, in support of our tireless work in favor of human and animal LIFE and the entire Earth's environment.