Socio-Environmental Projects
The Ibiti Project covers 6 thousand hectares of preserved areas or in the process of regeneration.
Reconnecting nature
Rewilding promotes the reintroduction of native fauna species to restore the ecosystem and reverse biodiversity loss.
The natural regeneration and reforestation over the last 40 years ensures dietary diversity for the reintroduced animals.
Northern muriqui
The largest primate in the Americas and exclusive to the Atlantic Forest, the muriqui is critically endangered.
In partnership with the Muriqui Biodiversity Institute (MIB), our goal is to increase the population, protect the species and contribute to scientific knowledge.
Muriquis can be observed at Muriqui’s House, a semi-captive enclosure with 4 hectares.
Tinamou and Guan
They are essential bird species for environmental education, as they are natural seeders of forests.
Since 2021, we have reintroduced 15 pairs of black-fronted piping guans to the region. Some are frequently seen at Fazenda Boa Vista.
Red-and-green macaw
It became extinct in a large part of the Brazilian Southeast due to deforestation and wildlife trafficking.
This macaw, in addition to being exuberant and intelligent, is docile, long-lived, monogamous and has an ability to imitate sounds – including the human voice.
Cougar
Project focused on research and conservation of the cougar, combined with sustainable ecotourism.
The objective is to monitor the cougars in the Ibitipoca region, using camera traps and installing GPS collars.
Wild Animal Release Area
In 2016, the Ibiti Project received authorization to be one of the bases in the country for the Project ASAS in partnership with the Brazilian Institute for Nature Protection (IBPN).
There are three large nurseries with native trees, plenty of food and a natural drinking fountain where animals rescued by IBAMA recover so they can gain freedom.
Sustainable local production
Gaia Produtos Ecológicos produces and sells food without the use of pesticides, with the organic product seal in process. Most of the ingredients used in the restaurants are supplied by Gaia.
- Intercropping to enrich the soil.
- Production of vegetables, legumes, fruits and cereals.
- What is not produced is purchased from local partners committed to sustainable practices.
A meeting of people and ideas
It offers courses, training, seminars and cultural activities to strengthen dialogue with the community.
And it goes further, organizing artistic and corporate immersions with a festive spirit that connects people and opens the Ibiti Project to neighbors and visitors, promoting regenerative knowledge on varied topics such as biodiversity, vegetarianism and spirituality.
Mogol's
New Life
This village belonging to the municipality of Lima Duarte (MG), previously emptied by the rural flight, is being reborn as a model community, with sustainable buildings, a vegetarian restaurant and accommodations that bring visitors closer to residents.
Your carbon footprint regenerated
Ibiti Regenera is a project that invites you to invest in something truly innovative. More than offsetting carbon emissions, we adopt practices that restore ecosystems and promote natural balance, such as the reintroduction of native species from the Atlantic Forest.
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Furthermore, our commitment involves local communities, preserves their traditions and encourages the circular economy and entrepreneurship. We are creating solutions with lasting impact. By joining Ibiti Regenera, you are part of this transformation, which combines environmental regeneration with socioeconomic responsibility. Together we are stronger and we can change our history!
Economic sustainability through local businesses
We intend to transform all internal economic activity into a business managed by one or more people from the region, in tune with our values and which offers our visitors excellence in goods and services.
The idea arose with the aim of balancing the relationship between environmental protection and income generation, with the offer of new services and products, whether in the promotion of tours, food cultivation, production of handicrafts, etc.
Maria and Carlos Borges
The couple Mariinha and Carlinhos run the Remote accommodation in Areião. They live nearby and grow most of the ingredients that are used.
They welcome guests with the best of Minas Gerais hospitality: home-cooked food on a wood-burning stove and horseback rides through waterfalls and beautiful landscapes at sunrise and sunset.
Claudia Baumgratz
Claudia, originally from Lima Duarte (MG), began managing the Ibiti Engenho Lodge in 2011. Since 2021, she has been in charge of accommodation in the eight suites of the old house and the three suites of Casa Carlinhos, as well as the Raízes Spa.
She specializes in luxury hospitality and is recognized for her work with regenerative tourism.
Diego Gonçalves
Host of Engenho Lodge, Diego is an astronomy enthusiast. Equipped with his powerful telescope and laser, he takes guests on a fun and enjoyable journey into space, showing constellations and stars, while telling stories and interesting facts about the universe.
Ibiti offers several ideal spots for observing the sky.
Team MIB
MIB – Muriqui Biodiversity Institute is an NGO coordinated by Marcello Nery, Fernanda Tabacow and Leandro Moreira. In addition, it has a team of biologists and veterinarians who help with the Muriqui House project, which operates at the Ibiti Project in partnership with several entities and which also has the co-coordination of biologist and professor at the Federal University of Viçosa, Fabiano R. de Melo.
Besides conducting groundbreaking field research, the team offers guests guided tours of the forest where the group of northern muriquis monitored by the project live. Critically endangered, they are the largest primates in the Americas and have only 12 populations in the wild, with just over a thousand individuals living in the wild.
Guilherme Salgado
and Gisely Fagundes
The engineer, passionate about orchids and bromeliads since adolescence, transformed, together with his partner, the hobby into a beautiful enterprise within the Ibiti Project: Ibiti Orquídeas, where they cultivate, exhibit and sell several species.
The space, with a white sand floor and views of the mountains, also serves as a setting for yoga classes, candlelit dinners and conversation circles.
Hugo Cambraia
The head of the Ibiti construction sector, Hugo is an engineer graduated from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (MG) and is taking on the Project's newest venture: Ibiti Regenera, aimed at regenerating the carbon footprint of anyone interested in taking part in our socio-environmental initiatives, combating the effects of the climate crisis on Planet Earth.
Under development, Ibiti Regenera will account for carbon sequestration in the area of degraded pastures undergoing regeneration and neutralize its footprint. Together we are stronger and we can transform our story.
Igor Sulex
Veterinarian, grandson of rural producers from the Ibitipoca region and passionate about horses, he has been in charge of the Ibiti Horses stud farm within the Ibiti Project since 2022.
It offers guests rides on Mangalarga Marchador horses through various settings, such as the Statues and Lago Negro. In the round pen, he teaches children to ride and provides equine therapy for people with special needs.
Juninho Vicente
With his friendliness and simplicity, the guide, born and raised in the community of São José dos Lopes, in the municipality of Lima Duarte, had the opportunity to study English in the United States. He learned a lot from colleagues, professionals and tourists who visit Ibiti about photography and other arts and audiovisual techniques. And he taught a lot about the nature of the region, becoming a reference in Ibiti.
With his sound equipment and traveling movie screen, it offers guests outdoor cinema in a variety of settings. An added treat for those who enjoy the connection between art and nature.
Kelly Lima
Kelly Lima, a production engineer, and her right-hand woman Janice Ventorim, an agronomist specializing in organic production, produce more than 200 varieties of fruits, grains and vegetables. The natural foods are on the shelves of Gaia Café, the local market, and are supplied to the restaurants of the Ibiti Project, providing more flavor and health in each dish.
Kelly is also the entrepreneur behind the Ibiti Village accommodation concept and the vegetarian restaurant Yucca, which are run by operations manager Gonçalo Catarino.
Lane Machado
With a background in Communication and experience in education management for over a decade, Lane is the head of marketing at Ibiti and also the director and entrepreneur of Life School, a transformative multilingual school aimed at small communities with a focus on learning connected to nature.
The school serves children aged 3 to 10 who live in Vila Mogol, children of Ibiti employees, and is open to children from families who want to experience the Life School, either as an enrolled student or to spend a period of a week or more experiencing the project's activities.
Maíra Delgado
An artist and cultural producer from Minas Gerais, born in Lima Duarte (MG), Maíra is involved in the organization of each event held at the Ibiti Project. As the person responsible for the Community, she facilitates lectures, courses and workshops for guests, collaborators and visitors, in addition to strengthening ties with the surrounding communities, with a series of actions, such as the Visit to the Statues and Cinema with Ibiti.
She also works on capturing and executing artistic and corporate immersions with a focus on regenerative knowledge.
Mateus Abdo
Entrepreneur and chef, Mateus offers creative, sustainable, contemporary cuisine with a regional Minas Gerais feel. The most incredible experiences offered by Ibiti Xperience are: dinner at Gruta, dinner at Oca, lunch at Estátuas and lunch at Praia do Mogol.
He was in charge of vegetarian and vegan cuisine at the three editions of the Muriqui Sounds festival. He was a chef for four years at the Yucca restaurant in Vila Mogol, where he created dishes inspired by nature with local and regional ingredients.
Miguel Giovannini
Two-time Downhill world champion Miguel Giovannini is in charge of the Bike House at Ibiti Village, in Vila Mogol. It has several models, with emphasis on E-bikes.
A great supporter of sports and the use of bicycles as a means of transport, he is a mountain bike guide on the approximately 300 km of trails of the Ibiti Project, ensuring good adventures for all types of guests, from beginners to the most experienced.
Girls from Engenho
The team of cooks at the Engenho restaurant always has fresh products on the shelves for those who can't resist taking home the food they tried during their stay.
From artisanal breads to fresh Minas cheese, including dulce de leche, cocada, as well as biscuits, granola, cookies, jams, preserved foods and other delicacies made on the farm with local and regional ingredients.
