This porject is made up of a series of activities aimed at reintroduction of white-lipped peccary into the Apinayé Indigenous Land, with the goal of building a mutual relationship between peccaries and the indigenous community by means of capacity-building on topics of sustainable management of the species, making it rational rather than predatory, which made the species extinct in the region in the past. The project will be developed in two stages, at the same time community corn crops will be grown for feeding the animals.
In the first phase two groups of peccaries will be acquired (18 females and 2 males), one for the Mariazinha village and the other for the São José village, a semi-extensive breeding area will be implemented and capacity-building will be offered for younger community members. Upon birth of the first litter in semi-extensive confinement, they will be released into the Cerrado for extensive breeding, without the use of fences. At this stage, an individual from each group will be monitored by radio transmitter for identification of herd location, and all will be identified with plastic earrings.
Feed for the herd will come from a community corn farm, the seeds of which will be provided by FUNAI