Through an agreement with INCRA, between 2008 and 2013, Floresta Viva carried out the diagnosis of eight rural settlements, proposing planning and adaptation of their areas, located in the Central Atlantic Forest Corridor (CCMA for its acronym in Portuguese). There were four settlements in the Southern Bahia: Loanda and Rosa de Luxemburgo (Itajuípe), Açucena Recordação (Camacan), Dom Helder (Ilhéus) and four in the Far South region: Paulo Freire, Lagoa Bonita, Jequitibá e Fazenda Esperança (all in the municipality of Mucuri).

The IFV also promoted environmental education, offering courses on forest seed collection, as alternative income source for the residents of the settlements, and other topics involving deforestation, hunting, garbage and hygiene in order to train environmental agents, who continued working on awareness-raising actions in these communities.