Conservation
Anacã is a tourism business. Our lodge and outings help sustain a property where, since 2015, conservation has meant concrete action: protecting, restoring, understanding and sharing.
The most lasting way to conserve is to make sure the forest stays standing.
A private protected area, protected in perpetuity
Created on 5 September 2024 by the family’s own choice, this Private Natural Heritage Reserve permanently protects 17.08 hectares of Amazon forest within Fazenda Anacã.
Discover our reserveSince 2016, land once used for cattle has been returned to forest, and isolated fragments brought closer together.
Restoration begun in 2016 · 10 years
Technique: direct seeding with native species, followed by enrichment planting with seedlings.
Restoration and forest enrichment here began in 2016, with direct seeding and native tree planting. The corridor links forest fragments on the property and gives wildlife more cover and possible routes between them. Wildlife already uses the corridor: records include primates such as the black-faced spider monkey and Schneider's marmoset, giant anteaters, southern tamanduas, more than one species of armadillo, tapirs, collared peccaries, tayras, ocelots, coatis, capybaras, tortoises, lesser grisons, neotropical otters, giant otters and many birds.
It is a voluntary initiative that goes beyond what the law requires. The aerial photo of the corridor illustrates the concept of an ecological corridor in the Sistema Ângulo de Ensino textbooks, used in schools across Brazil.
Direct seeding with a planter in 2016, when the area was still bare ground; the corridor in 2017, one year in, covered by a green manure of pigeon pea; the same path in 2018; and today, with well-established trees.
Camera-trap records from the Central Ecological Corridor.
Springs and streams protected since 2016
In 2016, Fazenda Anacã began fencing off springs and streams that cattle had previously used. Used as watering and grazing spots, these areas suffered from degraded vegetation and erosion. Free from trampling, the vegetation in these riparian areas — protected under Brazil’s Forest Code (Law 12,651/2012) — has been regenerating. Today around 15 hectares are regenerating — separate from the 17.08 hectares of the reserve.
One of the springs that feed the Maria Elena lake, in 2016 and today.
Fewer roadkills, more connectivity
A programme that reduces the impact of roads on Alta Floresta's wildlife, the first plan of its kind in an Amazonian municipality. Canopy bridges let primates and other tree-dwelling animals cross the roads safely, and signs alert drivers. Camera traps have already recorded thousands of crossings on the bridges, and all six primate species found at Fazenda Anacã already use the bridges, including the Alta Floresta titi, the programme's symbol.
The bridge design used in Alta Floresta has been the subject of an international scientific publication and is set to become a reference for Brazil's federal roads agency (DNIT) nationwide. Led by Projeto Reconecta, the programme brings together Alta Floresta's city government, universities, research institutions, civil-society organisations and companies. Fazenda Anacã is one of the partners and also takes part in the primate census.
Knowing who lives here, and where they move, guides our conservation decisions.
Camera traps, in partnership with UNEMAT
Launched in October 2026, the project runs five camera traps: three in the RPPN, one in the Central Ecological Corridor and one at the Jaguatirica spring. Scientific collaboration comes from UNEMAT (Mato Grosso State University), under the guidance of Professor Liliam Patricia Pinto, with students working in the field. The records broaden knowledge of local wildlife and are shared with students, the community and through Anacã's channels.
In the press: g1 Mato Grosso — Vídeo: macacos-pregos brincam com câmera de monitoramento em MT
Conservation also means bringing people closer to the forest.
Birdwatching with the community, since 2015
Since 2015, Fazenda Anacã has opened its trails for free birdwatching activities with the local community, In 2019 the lodge hosted field outings and a talk by Silvia Linhares, the Brazilian who has photographed more Brazilian bird species than anyone else; in 2023, with SEBRAE and UNEMAT, it held a nature-photography workshop with photographer Kacau Oliveira.
Children, forest and binoculars
Free guided visits for children aged 6 to 8, in partnership with UNEMAT. With binoculars and spotting scopes, bird guides, biologists and monitors lead the children along the trails, among leaves, ant nests, seeds, primates and birds — and the morning ends with a picnic in the lodge garden.
Native stingless bees, since 2018
The uruçu-boca-de-renda meliponary began in 2018 to help pollinate the forest restoration areas. Today it also has productive, educational and tourism roles, and guests can visit it on the Stingless Bee Trail.
Stingless Bee TrailAnacã also takes part in initiatives to strengthen tourism governance in Alta Floresta and the wider region. Institutional role
Timeline
Satellite images of Fazenda Anacã in 2013 and 2022: the growth of green areas is visible both in the widening riparian forest and in the ecological corridors.
Arrival at Fazenda Anacã, with the aim of joining tourism and conservation.
Community birdwatching activities begin.
The Central Ecological Corridor, the lodge-access corridor and the riparian areas are fenced off and restoration begins.
Stingless beekeeping begins and, at the end of the year, the land set aside for preservation, the future RPPN, is bought.
RPPN Fazenda Anacã is officially created, on 5 September.
The Monitora Anacã project gets under way.
The reserve trail, the Stingless Bee Trail and our wildlife itineraries take guests into the habitats this work protects.
