MARINE EXTRACTIVE RESERVE OF SOURE, PARÁ, BRAZIL: WAY OF LIFE OF COMMUNITIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS

• Autor(a) principal: Lobato, Gerciene de Jesus Miranda
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Tavares-Martins, Ana Cláudia Caldeira, Lucas, Flávia Cristina Araújo, Morales, Gundisalvo Piratoba, Rocha, Tainá Teixeira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biota Amazônia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifap.br/index.php/biota/article/view/1170

The Navy Soure Extractive Reserve is a Federal Protected Area which houses traditional populations, which develop intense relationship with nature featuring their way of life and consequently their culture. The study aimed to present the way of life of the communities Fishing Village, Community Cashew-Úna and Village of Heaven and inform about the environmental hazards found in the Marine Extractive Reserve of Soure, Para, Brazil. Techniques visits oportunizaram informal conversations with residents were conducted questionnaires to community leaders and managers of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), besides obtaining visual records of communities. Were determined in situ the parameters pH, temperature, total dissolved solids, electrical conductivity, color and turbidity in water samples collected in five water bodies seeking a preliminary assessment of its environmental quality. The way of life in communities characterized by extractive activities such as artisanal fishing, crab scavenging and gathering, and cultivation of plants. The identified environmental threats were fishing and scavenging crab outside closed by extractive users in receipt of disability allowance closures, road construction and illegal extraction of sand from the beaches, solid waste on the beach, and signs of alteration of water quality. The surface water resources can be legally classified as brackish waters, and the waters of the springs and dug wells as Class 2 freshwaters. Strategic measures aimed at the conservation of natural and cultural resources, and the integrity of traditional populations are indispensable for this Unit conservation.Keywords: Marajo; biodiversity; traditional populations.