Federal Conservation Units in Brazil: The Situation of Biomes and Regions

Eduardo Pacca Luna Mattar,Alcimone Maria Da Costa Silva,Tiago Teixeira Viana Barros,Benjamin Barros Cunha,Joab Ferreira De Souza

doi:10.1590/2179-8087.005115

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https://doi.org/10.1590/2179-8087.005115

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ABSTRACT Federal conservation units (FCU) are areas legally established by the government, in order to meet the needs of protection and sustainable exploitation of biodiversity. A way to ensure the efficiency of public management is to systematize data. Therefore, the present study grouped and analyzed public data about FCU. Brazil has 309 federal conservation units, which represent 9.06% of the national territory and 45305 residents households. The Northern Region covers 84.80% of these families and 79.20% of its area belongs to FCU. The Amazonia biome has 14.57% of its territory occupied by FCU; on the other hand, Pantanal has only 0.98% of its area protected. There is a higher concentration of public agents in the FCU of the Southeastern region and in the Mata Atlântica biome. The analysis of this information reveals significant differences between the biomes and the federation units, a fact that reflects the importance of the organization of public data.

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AND OBJECTIVEEfficient management of these areas is a key factor to promote biodiversity conservation
A significant information gap is encountered, since public data are scattered in databases managed by different institutions and are usually not organized, readily available to the general public, correlated or updated a situation that undermines the efficiency of public administration in Brazil
The data used in the study were: 1. number of families benefiting from the Agrarian Reform per Federal Conservation Unit (FCU); 2

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AND OBJECTIVEEfficient management of these areas is a key factor to promote biodiversity conservation. According to Salgado (2000), one way of ensuring this outcome is by systematizing data. At this point, a significant information gap is encountered, since public data are scattered in databases managed by different institutions and are usually not organized, readily available to the general public, correlated or updated a situation that undermines the efficiency of public administration in Brazil. The country has the national registry of conservation units that provides an interinstitutional information base for the general public. This information is an advance in terms of public management, it presents certain failures, such as: 1. It does not present the contact and function of the whole management team of each conservation unit, and some of the management contacts are outdated

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