[4] The Alto Tarauacá Extractive Reserve was created by decree on 8 November 2000 with an area of about 151,199.64 hectares (373,622.4 acres) to ensure sustainable exploitation and conservation of renewable natural resources traditionally used by extractive populations.

Its basic objectives are to protect the livelihoods and culture of these populations, and to ensure the sustainable use of natural resources.

[7] The Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform – INCRA) recognised the reserve on 3 November 2003 as meeting the agro-extraction needs of 170 families.

[8] The reserve helps reduce illegal and predatory extraction of hardwood, especially cedar and mahogany.

They raise ducks, chickens, pigs, sheep, goats, donkeys and horses.

Most tappers routinely hunt paca, pigs and pampas deer, and 90% of households consume fish from the streams and lakes.