Natus System: Tools to build an environmental legacy for humanity
Dr. Ranulfo Paiva Sobrinho — Co fundador do Sistema Natus
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The Natus environmental cryptoasset system is an innovative initiative that unites entrepreneurs, owners of Privately Protected Areas (PPAs) and individuals using the best of blockchain technology to strengthen the global network of PPAs.
The Natus system is composed of people, companies, and organizations that are committed to building the following environmental legacy:
“Privately Protected Areas (PPAs) with financial autonomy to continue generating benefits for humanity forever.”
The Natus system exists to support PPAs to be financially autonomous to generate environmental benefits for humanity. We use the best of blockchain technology to ensure that transactions occur transparently, with integrity and security.
How does it work?
The process is simple. All PPAs that participate in the Natus System are analyzed to identify the environmental benefits generated by them. From this analysis, Natus Units are created representing the environmental benefits generated by the PPA. The system sells the Natus Units to those who want to contribute to the environmental legacy. The profit from the sales is distributed between the PPAs and the supporters of the system. Those who bought the Natus Units also receive benefits, because environmental conservation can benefit everyone, also financially.
Why PPAs?
Privately Protected Areas (PPAs) are essential to guarantee the conservation of the Amazon forest, the Atlantic Forest and other biomes in Brazil and around the world.
53% of Brazil’s native vegetation occurs on PRIVATE PROPERTIES
Despite their importance in forest conservation, the vast majority of PPAs are financed solely by their owners. These people are already doing their part and paying out of their pockets for nature conservation that benefits you and society. Many do it without having financial autonomy, making the arduous task of conserving their reserves more difficult.
Financial autonomy is essential for reserves to be able to:
(1) Create and update their Management Plan,
(2) Prevent and combat environmental crimes,
(3) Prevent and combat forest fires, and other activities related to conservation.
The Natus system was born to join efforts in the construction of the environmental legacy that the PPAs have already begun to build.
In Brazil, we have several types of Privately Protected Areas (PPAs), including Legal Reserves and Private Natural Heritage Reserves (RPPNs).
For example, in the Amazon biome, the Legal Reserve can vary from 50% to 80% of rural properties. This protection can be strengthened with the creation of RPPNs, a category of PPA that is much more protective than the Legal Reserves, besides being perpetual.
In the Atlantic Forest biome, about 80% of all forests that remain standing is on private properties, and the creation of RPPNs is the most effective way to guarantee the protection of these areas in the long term.
In Brazil, the Natus System will generate benefits that motivate people to transform their Legal Reserves into a stronger category, the RPPN.
Once a property becomes an RPPN it must be preserved forever, even if it is sold. This ensures the conservation of the Amazon, the Atlantic Forest and other biomes.
In other countries, private reserves also play an important role in generating environmental benefits for humanity. In these countries, the Natus system, through its allies, will create incentives for Privately Protected Areas to be (where possible) in categories similar to the RPPN status in Brazil. Thus, we strengthen the global network of Privately Protected Areas.
Discover the pioneering PPAs of the Natus System here.
We build the environmental legacy through practices that:
Go Beyond the Carbon Market
Traded cryptoassets, such as the Natus Unit, represent water springs, biodiversity, preserved forests, among other environmental benefits generated by one or more PPAs in a given period.
Each Natus Unit contains the following information:
- Collection in which they were released
- List of environmental benefits
- Name, location, biome where the PPA that generated the environmental benefits belongs to
- Link for you to access by your smartphone, tablet or computer, the Environmental Inventory and satellite images of the PPA
Discover the Environmental Benefits generated by the first Natus Unit Collection here.
Uniting Art with Environmental Conservation
Natus Units are launched in Collections each year on the World Environment Day (June 5).
Each collection represents one year of conservation and can be represented by one or more digital art items (images, sounds, etc.) of species of flora or fauna of one or more biomes.
Some of these digital assets will be collectible (non-fungible tokens, or NFTs) and are a further benefit to the people, companies, or organizations that contributed to the Legacy by purchasing Natus Units from that collection.
The NFT can be collected or traded, benefiting the finances of the owner, the artist, and the Natus system.
Between one year’s World Environment Day and the next, the Natus system may release more than one collection when needed.
Going Beyond Philanthropy
You Support the Environmental Legacy by buying the Natus Unit of each collection and you can also benefit your finances.
You earn by connecting the Natus system with people, companies, organizations who want to contribute to the Environmental Legacy.
Each time they contribute to the Legacy by buying Natus Units, you receive a percentage of the value of the purchase made by your guests, which can range from 1% to 30% depending on the amount of Natus Units purchased. This is a reward to you for connecting them to the Natus system.
Benefits of the Natus System for you
The Natus system has prepared, initially, three benefits for you and the people who contribute the most to the legacy
- The Natus Units you buy allow you to receive one or more NFTs from the collection. You may sell or collect your NFTs. By collecting it, you are eligible to receive other surprises that the Natus system will have for collectors. On the other hand, whoever buys NFTs from you may receive the benefits that the system will create for collectors.
- For each Natus Unit that was bought by the people or organizations that you referred to the system, you earn a percentage of the value paid for the Natus Units.
- The Natus system will share, when possible, rewards through the cryptoasset Natuscoin to those who bought Natus Units.
The transfer of financial benefits occurs without bureaucracy, without corruption, transparently and with integrity, as most of them occur within a low-power blockchain platform.
Get involved building the environmental legacy
Visit www.sistemanatus.com for more information and to join our waiting list.
