To be acknowledged as preserve, you have to put an application to INEFAN and dem INHERI. After a year of discussions, inspections, requieries, we finally got acknowledged.
The arguments of the inspectors, why this area had to be protected, was quite interesting: Not because it is an important eco-system, worth beeing protected, but on thje contrary, because the area there is not good for anything else: too steep, the soil too poor, the trees are said to be not worthy enough to be cut down, too far from trasnport, too humid. To be forest preserve means, that the GSR has to write every 5 years a precise runninng plan that has to be accepted from the state. Every 6 months a reporthas to be handed over, and a public official comes to control the forest preserve.
As counter, the state has to protect us against land invasion. It is common and legal in Ecuador, to invade "fallow lying" areas (= for example rainforest) and to use it for agriculture, even if the owner has made a record of his posession in the land register. Only if you're a forest preserve, you can avoid this.

The amaZOOnico and the SelvaViva protectian area are located at the Rio Arajuno in the eastern part of Ecuador. More precisely in the community of Ahuano, canton Tena, province Napo. SelvaViva extends over the river mouth of Rio Cosanos to the Rio Napo.

• The total forest area in GSR-posession is approx. 864 acres.
• From that 296.7 acres are recorded in the land register
• The area that is acknowledged from the state as forest preserve is 573,65 acres
• The total area belonging to the rainforest protection project Selva Viva, comnes up to aprox. 1115 acres

• Escrituras
  All documents are available, the plot of forest is recorded in the land register. This is the ideal case.
• Promessa
  There are missing documents, the former owner is selling either the claim to the land, or he is promising to sell, what means, that he has already legally made over the piece of land, and should he withdraw from his promise, he would have to pay a fixed amount as a penance. This penance is normaly that high, that is generally not possible, to withdraw from the promisse of selling. In addition after three years, it is not possible (by another law) to fall back to a piece of land, that has already been handed over.(confusion of the laws!)
• None
  The rights for the land have been handed over, there are no documents. This is not a problem, as long as you prevent people from settling down on the premises.

 
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