THE Analysis impacts of the legislation of Permanent Protection Areas –APP on the cerrado landscape: case study of the municipality of Diamantino – MT

Abstract

Environmental protection in Brazil is premised on the attempt to unite environmental and legislative technical issues. The main objective of this work is to analyze the impacts of environmental legislation, especially on Permanent Protection Areas, in the Cerrado landscape, taking as an example the municipality of Diamantino - MT. The data used in this research were from the Rural Environmental Registry - RER, through the CAR - SICAR System, from the Federal Technical Registry Information Bulletin and from the Cerrado Knowledge Project, with data on land use and occupation from MAPBIOMAS. When analyzing the spatial distribution of APPs in the municipality of Diamantino - MT, a fragmentation of protection areas is evident. In a few cases, preservation corridors are formed in the municipality, especially in the eastern portion of the municipality. Therefore, when analyzing APPs in general in the Cerrado, and specifically in the municipality of Diamantino, in light of the use of current environmental legislation, it is clear that the flaws contained in the norms benefit only the political and economic side. In this way, this issue, if not treated with the seriousness that it asks, can cause a great imbalance in the natural environment.