Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin

• Autor(a) principal: Pelicice, Fernando Mayer
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Agostinho, Angelo Antonio, Akama, Alberto, Andrade Filho, José Dilermando, Azevedo-Santos, Valter M. [UNESP], Barbosa, Marcus Vinicius Moreira, Bini, Luis Mauricio, Brito, Marcelo Fulgêncio Guedes, dos Anjos Candeiro, Carlos Roberto, Caramaschi, Érica Pellegrini, Carvalho, Priscilla, de Carvalho, Rodrigo Assis, Castello, Leandro, das Chagas, Davi Borges, Chamon, Carine Cavalcante, Colli, Guarino Rinaldi, Daga, Vanessa Salete, Dias, Murilo Sversut, Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola, Fearnside, Philip, de Melo Ferreira, Wagner, Garcia, Diego Azevedo Zoccal, Krolow, Tiago Kutter, Kruger, Rodrigo Ferreira, Latrubesse, Edgardo Manuel, Lima Junior, Dilermando Pereira, de Fátima Lolis, Solange, Lopes, Fabyano Alvares Cardoso, Loyola, Rafael Dias, Magalhães, André Lincoln Barroso, Malvasio, Adriana, De Marco Jr, Paulo, Martins, Pedro Ribeiro, Mazzoni, Rosana, Nabout, João Carlos, Orsi, Mário Luis, Padial, Andre Andrian, Pereira, Hasley Rodrigo, Pereira, Thiago Nilton Alves, Perônico, Phamela Bernardes, Petrere Jr, Miguel, Pinheiro, Renato Torres, Pires, Etiene Fabbrin, Pompeu, Paulo Santos, Portelinha, Thiago Costa Gonçalves, Sano, Edson Eyji, dos Santos, Vagner Leonardo Macedo, Shimabukuro, Paloma Helena Fernandes, da Silva, Idelina Gomes, Souza, Lucas Barbosa e, Tejerina-Garro, Francisco Leonardo, de Campos Telles, Mariana Pires, Teresa, Fabrício Barreto, Thomaz, Sidinei Magela, Tonella, Livia Helena, Vieira, Ludgero Cardoso Galli, Vitule, Jean Ricardo Simões, Zuanon, Jansen
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01513-7; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/222124
• topic: Biodiversity; Conservation; Policy; South America; Sustainability

The Tocantins-Araguaia Basin is one of the largest river systems in South America, located entirely within Brazilian territory. In the last decades, capital-concentrating activities such as agribusiness, mining, and hydropower promoted extensive changes in land cover, hydrology, and environmental conditions. These changes are jeopardizing the basin’s biodiversity and ecosystem services. Threats are escalating as poor environmental policies continue to be formulated, such as environmentally unsustainable hydropower plants, large-scale agriculture for commodity production, and aquaculture with non-native fish. If the current model persists, it will deepen the environmental crisis in the basin, compromising broad conservation goals and social development in the long term. Better policies will require thought and planning to minimize growing threats and ensure the basin’s sustainability for future generations.