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Engaging the local communities with harmonious management of their lands.\n\n\n\n**The purpose of the Aluxes Project is to protect biodiversity of tropical rainforests and let nature thrive through its bioregional corridors.**\n\n\n\n\n#### Central American jungles\nConsidered one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, with estimates suggesting that it may contain as many as **10% of all known species** of plants and animals. This particular region is also home to many **Maya communities** who have lived in harmony with the environment for thousands of years.\n\n\nAfter the Amazon, the **Mesoamerican Maya Rainforest** is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the Americas with 5.4 million hectare rainforests that stretch across Belize, northern Guatemala and the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula.\n\nIt is fed by the biggest natural reserves in the bioregion which provide over the 80% of its biodiversity.\n\n![Untitled_Artwork 160.JPG](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rkku56Mma.jpg)\n#### **The Maya people**\nFor thousands of years, the Maya jungle, in all its great diversity, has been **an ally to the mayan people**, providing every element to sustain its population in a rich and complete way.\n\n\nMost of the Maya jungle territory is owned by local communities in the form of \u201cejidos\u201d which is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct (usable) rights rather than \"traditional\" ownership rights to land.\n\nMost of these communities are focused on traditional sustainable economic activities and have not changed for thousands of years.\n\nThey are the inheritors of the ancient maya knowledge and territory and a vital partner for any project to thrive in this region.\n\n**Aluxes will work hand by hand with the local Maya people empowering the importance of their role in maximizing positive impact in the region.**\n\n\n\n\n#### **Problem**\n\nThe bioregion is facing **increasing pressures** from commercial agriculture, massive deforestation and climate change effects.\n\n**The current economic incentives are structured in a way to encourage the local users to deforest and degrade their lands to reap a short term economic benefit.**\n\nDeforestation and monocropping practices pose a significant threat to tropical rainforests, leading to the **biodiversity loss** and ecological imbalance. \n\n![Untitled_Artwork 188](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SyYeWshx0.jpg)\n\n#### **Solution**\n\nBy guiding and empowering the local communities with the Aluxes 4 sector model, we will be able to **provide more economic incentives** to foster greater long term benefits for the local ecosystem and the economy for the foreseeable future\n\nWe have learned that in order to revert degradation and create positive impact in tropical rainforests we must **regenerate degraded land and provide economical value to conserved land**. \n\nThe four sectors are designed to provide **enviromental, social, and economical value** to the bioregion.\n\n\n\n![Untitled_Artwork 186](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SyKVqFng0.jpg)\n\n\n\n \n#### The Sectors\n\nThe four sectors\u2014Luum, Kab, Chaan, and Nah\u2014comprehensively address the essential components of tropical rainforest restoration.\n\n**Luum** - Soil Regeneration focuses on revitalizing the foundation of ecosystems, ensuring fertile ground for plant growth and carbon sequestration.\n\n**Kab** -  Pollination secures the vital role of pollinators in sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem resilience.\n\n\n**Chaan** - Conservation safeguards critical habitats and biodiversity hotspots, mitigating threats like deforestation and habitat fragmentation.\n\n**Nah** - Education empowers local communities with knowledge and skills, fostering a culture of conservation and sustainable land management.\n\nTogether, these sectors form a holistic approach that not only restores tropical rainforests but also engages stakeholders and ensures the long-term sustainability of our efforts.\n\n---\n\n#### **LUUM**\n\nThe soil regeneration sector is at the forefront of **agricultural innovation**, developing self-sufficient irrigation systems for crops and pioneering the use of soil sciences and agroforestry to revitalize and restore the fertility of degraded soils, ultimately blending agricultural productivity with **ecological renewal**.\n\nWe understand that indigenous communities have long held intimate relationships with the land, **inheriting invaluable insights and practices** passed down through generations. Therefore, our soil regeneration efforts are grounded in **honoring and incorporating these ancestral traditions into our restoration practices.**\n\n\n\n![Untitled_Artwork 14.gif](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/B1CRVUF7p.gif)\n\n\n\n\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 These systems increase productivity, provide diversified income streams, and reduce input costs.\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 Local species like vanilla, cacao, avocado, corn, zapote, ram\u00f3n, caoba, mamey and tzalam have strong viability in the local organic market.\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 Herbal medicine market is expeced to reach 347B by 2029\n\n---\n\n#### **KAB**\n\nThe pollination sector is particularly vital as stingless bees, which **pollinate over 45% of tropical rainforests.**\n\nPollinator populations, including stingless bees, are important to ensure the reproduction of a **wide array of plant species** and diverse floral habitats. \n\n\n**Meliponiculture has been practiced for thousands of years**, creating a unique relationship between humans and bees. Where bees ensure their safety from predators, get their colonies multiplied, and humans benefit from the variety of their products.\n\n![Untitled_Artwork 11.gif](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HknhfLKQa.gif)\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 Stingless bee products (honey, propolis and wax) hold a niche market value due to their unique qualities and limited availability.\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 The bioactivity of stingless bee products is diverse and exhibits great potential as an antimicrobial agent or in various diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancers, oral problems and wound healing.\n\n---\n\n#### **CHAAN**\n\nWe are aware that the most important action to take is to **conserve untouched land for the longest time possible.**\n\nBiodiversity management initiatives **reintroduce native species**, restore habitats and secure connectivity corridors in the bioregion. Guided by **biodata monitoring**, we gain insights into ecosystem health, we can identify key conservation priorities, track ecological trends, and evaluate the effectiveness of our interventions over time. \n\n![Untitled_Artwork 12.gif](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Sk3RzIFXT.gif)\n\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 Sustainable natural products can be positioned in a premium organic market.\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 Sanctuaries are profitable as a sustainable low-scale ecotourism activity\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 Quantifying biodiversity gains to use in order to apply for eco-credits.\n\n\n---\n\n#### **NAH**\n\nNah sector addresses the dual needs of education in regeneration techniques and cultural expression by providing spaces for collaborative learning and creativity, fostering **community bonds and social enrichment.**\n\nOur educational initiatives are complemented by a commitment to **architectural techniques that align with local** material-oriented and efficient, sustainable concepts. We want to respect local cultural heritage by minimizing enviromental impact and promote economic resilience within communities.\n\n\n\n![Untitled_Artwork 13.gif](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H17gmUFXa.gif)\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 Plastic recycled and transformed products and tools\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 Natural ending cycles offer a wide variety of organic residuals that could be used to produce profitable art pieces.\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 Artistic expositions featuring local artists with local products\n\n\ud83d\udcb0 Educational experiences on site through the four sectors to learn the process of regenerating tropical rainforests.\n\n---\n\n#### **What is the plan?**\n\nWe are planning to act in 3 main phases to achieve in a long term, an active bioregional economy\n\n#### Phase 1: The Foundation\n![Untitled_Artwork 190](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HJjNn33l0.jpg)\n\nIn the Foundation phase of our project, we will establish a testing ground to evaluate the effectiveness of the four sectors: Soil Regeneration, Conservation, Pollination, and Education. **This phase will begin with a pilot project implemented on a 1-hectare plot of land within the tropical rainforest.** Here, we will conduct controlled experiments and assessments to fine-tune our strategies and methodologies.\n\nWe have partnered with a local landowner to implement a pilot program \"The Foundation\" aimed at testing the four sectors and **prove that this model can generate capital value using regenerative practices on his land.**\n\nThe foundation is designed to continue until we have thoroughly documented each step of the process, ensuring that we have comprehensive data and insights to achieve **modularity and scalability.** \n\nThis entails rigorously recording and analyzing the outcomes, challenges, and lessons learned from implementing each sector of the project.\n\nBy meticulously documenting our methodologies, best practices, and success indicators, we will develop standardized protocols and guidelines that can be easily replicated and adapted in different contexts.\n\nWriting the basis of a land stewardship guide what we will call  **\"Ahau Book.\"**\n\n#### Phase 2: The seeds\n![Untitled_Artwork 193](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Bkg4Da2eA.jpg)\n\nThe primary goal is to implement effective practices and proven sustainable business models from the **Ahau Book** into a wider range of sites, transforming them into real initiatives across various parts of the bioregion where Aluxes will serve in many areas depending the case (funding, operating, supervising).\n\nBy integrating the Ahau Book principles of ecological balance and **helping incubate local owned businesse**s, The Seeds phase seeks to create sustainable grid of land-systems that benefit both the environment and local communities, ensuring a harmonious coexistence between human activities and nature.\n\nEach of these sites will incorporate an **onchain governance structure** for transparency and accountability and a model that creates a fair equity split in an early-stage, bootstrapped startup companies for equitable revenue distribution, all of which will be detailed in the Ahau Book.\n\nWe will expand Aluxes project to encompass a large amount of habitats and communities. **Generating collective impact**, while still retaining the ability to adjust and optimize each sector independently.\n\nWe aim to **encourage local landowners to join the league** and become partners in our shared mission of promoting ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation at a bioregional scale.\n\n#### The Merge\n![Untitled_Artwork 194](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BkSMKp3xA.jpg)\n\nIn the Merge phase, we aim to consolidate a **coordinated bioregional conservation economy**.\n\nWe will integrate Web3 coordination tools and technologies into our project to enhance bioregional collaboration, transparency, and accountability. **This phase introduces a wide range of possibilities.**\n\n\n# Bioregional conservation economy\n\nAs the guardians of our own future, humanity stands on the brink of an epochal shift. Bioregional conservation economies represent not merely a choice but a **necessity**, as they hold the potential to redefine our relationship with the natural world. These economies are predicated upon the vital principle that **living in harmony with nature is paramount.**\n\nThis phase represents an evolution of Aluxes towards a more **decentralized and transparent** model, leveraging emerging technologies to drive positive change in tropical rainforest conservation and regeneration efforts.\n\n#### What is done?\n\n-  Design of layout for the foundation phase. (1 hectare)\n-  Basic infrastructure built (well, storage module)\n-  Design and construction of 16 stingless beehives (**impact GG19**)\n-  Migration of the first colony division to the new hive (*Melipona beecheii*)\n-  Migration of 3 more colonies including the rescue of a damaged underground hive\n-  Acquisition of 5 colonies from a local beekeeper (**impact GG20**)\n-  Team building certified course on stingless bee identification and management\n-  Build Kab Database where we will store all the information of our bees\n-  Team building certified course on creation of biodiversity management programs\n-  Design and built 50 bee attractors (**impact GG21**)\n-  Design and built beebox V2 test\n\n#### Whats the current status?\n\n-  Design and prototype of the four sectors. (**on process**)\n-  Populate 16 beehives. (**on process 8/16**)\n-  Bi-weekly Monitoring and reporting in Kab Database\n\n#### What are the challenges?\n\n**May 3** - We have seen that it is a challenge to get all the bee species on the bioregion by buying existing colony divisions. Also that model is not sustainable if we want to scale our \"bee-bank\".\n\n**Sept 12** - Unfortunately with the arrival of hurricaine Beryl our site plans were postponed due to the loss of all our new plants. Heavy rain has been an obstacle to finish some operations on site (like topographic studies and complete species documentation) Also during rain season we are not allowed to open or manipulate any of the new bee colony divisions due to potential patogens entering the colonies. So tests on honey, and pollen, are postponed.\n\n**Sept 3** - The challenge of designing the most optimal bee attractor has been in selecting the right materials.\n\n**Oct 11** - We ended up using recycled plastic bottles in a part of the design to create a useful tool out from a good practice which is cleaning the jungle. We will re-use 100 plastic bottles to make 50 attractors. After the natural division is settled, we will move the colonies to wooden beeboxes V2\n\n#### What is next?\n\n-  Land preparation and seeding for Luum sector (four agroforestry systems)\n-  Install the 16 populated beehives on site\n-  Build 50+ attractors for sustainable collection of stingless bees\n-  Build 25+ beeboxes V2\n-  Acquisition of ecosystem monitoring gear to test Chan sector\n-  Full species documentation of site\n-  Launch Jungle spaces for expert guidance on [**@aluxeprojects**](https://www.x.com/aluxeprojects) account\n-  Website V2\n-  Whitepaper V1 Launch\n-  Web3 ecosystem map\n\n#### The team\n\n[**@syntropicregen**](https://www.x.com/syntropicregen) (founder, strategist, designer, community manager, developer)\n\n**Allan** (co-founder, local connections, local operations, strategist, investor)\n\n**Gabriel** (Maya local landowner, beekeeper, advisor)\n\n#### Impact GG21 and what are GG22 funds for?\n\nWe are happy to tell that **thanks to the funding received from our wonderful community** we have designed and built **50 bee attractors** to collect the most amount of species from the bioregion.\n\nThe effort of collecting all the stingless bee species will help us ensure their population and multiply their population and resilience. \n\nThese new colonies will be divided in flowering season to have **25+ potential colonies** and expand our specie diversity.\n\nThe funds will be used to build **25+ beeboxes V2** to house all the colonies we acquire.\n\nAlso to assemble **50+ bee attractors** to keep making efforts in increasing the biodiversity size of our bee bank.\n\nWe are waiting for flowering season to migrate the **5 new colonies** to our community funded beeboxes V1.\n\nAll of them are *Melipona beecheii* divisions we acquired from a local stingless bee keeper.\n\nWe still have now **3/19 species** in our community funded \"bee bank\"\n\n- *Melipona beecheii*\n- *Scaptotrigonna pectoralis*\n- *Plebeia mexica*\n\nWe aim at collecting **all the 19 registered species of the Bioregion** to ensure its population, and hopefully divide them to mantain their resilience, their existence and see them thrive!\n\n\n**Our next milestone on the GG Journey will follow the line of the pollination sector**.\n\n100 attractors to increase our bee-bank in **100+ multi- specie colonies.**\n\nThis effort aims to build resilience in the biodiversity of stingless bee populations. And gives us the **honorable opportunity** to learn more about them.\n\n\n**If you are reading this YOU ARE SO EARLY!**\n\nWe are confident that, once the Aluxe project is consolidated, it will **drastically reduce deforestation (and thus GHG emissions) on a bigger scale.**\n\nSolidifying the conservation of the corridor. By involving local communities and economically activating the region responsibly, this corridor of protection will ensure the natural flow of species and thriving **ecosystems will remain connected in the Mayan Rainforest.**\n\nWe can expand the solution to the rest of Central America, and save a big part of tropical rainforests and with it the inheritage of the **Maya tropical rainforests.**\n\n#### Thaks for your support!\n![Untitled_Artwork 204](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SyUcVOYYA.jpg)\n\n-\n\n![Aluxeslogob-08](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SJZG-HtYA.png)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "aluxeprojects"}, "recipient": "0x40636c38F9114B89A89F06c7377aA26C79800577"}}