Turismo Sustentável é aquele que busca minimizar os impactos ambientais e sócio-culturais, ao mesmo tempo que promove benefícios O Ecoturismo é Turismo Sustentável em áreas naturais, que beneficia o meio ambiente e as comunidades visitadas e que promove o aprendizado, respeito e consciência sobre aspectos ambientais e culturais.
Sustainable tourism is that which is conducted with a minimum impact on the ambiente and local communities, while at the same time providing benefits (Programa Ecoturismo e Turismo Sustentável) in natural areas that benefit both the ambiente and the visited communities promotes ongoing eduacation, respect and concience about the ambiente and culture.
RPPN Sernativo - Acari, Rio Grande do Norte (in English) - Ecological reserve - projected Hotel - Fazenda dedicated to the preservation of the Caatinga, a natural vegetation of the semi-arid Seridó region of northeast Brazil.
While Brazil is known for its rain forests, much of the country encompasses more arid habitats, including the semiarid scrub forests of the Caatinga. One of the most populated semiarid regions in the world, the Caatinga is so altered that only a few ecologically important examples of natural habitat remain.
Caatinga is the natural vegetation in the sertao region of the northeastern part of Brazil. The name "caatinga" is a indigenous word meaning "open forest" or "open vegetation". It covers about 700,000 km2. The Caatinga has a semi-arid climate with average annual temperatures of about 28 °C. The area has a very hot and dry winter and a hot and rainy summer. The rivers of the caatinga only run during the rainy summers and in some places the streams are interrupted during the dry winters. The vegetation consists mainly of open shrubs that are resistant to drought.
A Mata Estrela, com uma área total de 2.039,93 ha, constitui-se o maior remanescente de Mata Atlântica do estado e o maior sobre dunas do país. Em seu interior encontramos aproximadamente 19 lagoas de águas límpidas e de águas escuras devido a pigmentos liberados pelas raízes das árvores e da composição mineral do solo. Acreditam os nativos que o banho nestas águas tenham efeito medicinal.
Mata Estrela, with a total area of 2.039,93 hectares, consitutes the major remains of the coastal forest (Mata Atlântíca) in the state (Rio Grande do Norte) and the largest relating to dunes in the country (Brazil). In the interior of the reserve there are approximately 19 clear water and dark water lagoons (the dark water is caused by pigmatation of the leaves from the trees and mineral composition of the soil. The local natives believe that swimming or bathing in these waters has medicinal benefits,
ANDETUR BRAZILIAN TRAVEL CLUB (ABTC-BRASIL) has an ADOPT AN ACRE donation program; money raised in this program is used for both our Caatinga and Mata Atlântíca conservation programs.
The city of Jacunda in the state of Para has a large number of children living in abject poverty. They suffer from malnutrition, abandonment, illness, lack of medical care and medicine, and have no way to gain life-sustaining skills. Safe drinking water is also often unavailable. Many children are born to adolescent mothers or abandoned by parents who are unable to care for them.
P.R.A.Y. has established a mission in Jacunda, Para, Brazil to assist the children by providing shelter, medical assistance, and life skills.
