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the state of biodiversity
the state of environment in Brazil
Indigenous Lands (TI) are also important for in situ
biodiversity conservation With a total of 586 areas, TI
occupy a total extension of 105,091,977 hectares (123 percent
of the continental area of the country), 98 percent of which
are situated in the Legal Amazon (ISA, 2002) When added
to federal and state conservation units, the percentage of
protected areas, with different degrees of protection
increases to 2078 percent of the national territory
As demonstrated by the various factors addressed, Brazilian
biodiversity has suffered significant losses and will only be
preserved through the protection of large areas that enable
the maintenance of viable ecosystems and of evolutionary
processes Despite this alert, the existing protected areas in
Brazil are, in general, small, isolated and their
implementation presents various problems Moreover, the
conservation unit system, often directed towards the
protection of some species and ecosystems, is not sufficient
to conserve the biodiversity totality The current system
does not account for the protection of gradients between
T able 4 - P ercentage of F ederal and S tate Cons ervation
U nits by category of us e.
T hedataon Conservation U nits in theS tates of GO, MS ,
BA,CE,PB,PE,PI,RN,SE,ES,andRS areincomplete.
T hey do not include overlapping areas.
Conservation U nits Federal State
Full Protection
Sustainable Use
Source: IBAMA - 2002
2.15
2.65
0.76
2.93
2.91
5.58
ecosystems that permit the dispersal of individuals,
adaptation to disturbances and maintenance of genetic flux
between populations
The units of integral protection that effectively protect
Figure 3 - Percentage of biome areas in conservation units per group of unities
Percentage of Conservation Units by group and biome
50
45
Percentage by biome
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
% of biome
State Full Protection
State Sustainable Use
Federal Full Protection
GROUP OF CONSERVATION UNITS
Federal Sustainable Use
BIOME
Amazon
Cerrado
Atlantic Forest
Caatinga
Cerrado-Amazon ecotone
Southern fields
Caatinga-Amazon ecotone
pantanal
Cerrado-Caatinga ecotone
coastal
Source: IBAMA - 2002
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