Permanent Preservation Areas scenarios in dairy farms in the Vale do Taquari against the forest code

Abstract

The Forest Code implemented innovations in the regulation of Permanent Preservation Areas (PPA), especially by authorizing the continuation of agroforestry activities in the consolidated rural areas. The present study sought to analyze the implications of these innovations by identifying the use and coverage of PPAs in five dairy farms located in the Vale do Taquari, RS, Brazil, and the subsequent application of the Forest Code rules to determine areas that must be recovered and respected on each property. The results showed that the total areas to be respected represent 10.64%, 5.10%, 59.77%, 81.63% and 98.37% of their respective PPA. These data indicated that, depending on the situation of the property, the innovations brought by the Forest Code cause a significant reduction in the ​PPA to be respected, besides leading to disparate protection measures between properties, imposing greater burdens on those in which native vegetation was grown more preserved.