Integration of forest monitoring data to assess threat and anthropic pressure in jamanxim national forest
International Journal of Development Research
Integration of forest monitoring data to assess threat and anthropic pressure in jamanxim national forest
Received 21st August, 2021; Received in revised form 28th August, 2021; Accepted 20th September, 2021; Published online 30th September, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Brenda Cunha Pereira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Jamanxim National Forest is a protected area located in the Amazon biome, created in 2006, with the aim of mitigating the foreseen deforestation with BR-163 paving, a highway that crosses portions of the native Amazonforest. The highway paving was completed in a process that ran from 2016 to 2020. Since then, the region has emerged as the leader in deforestation rankings. This research analyzed several georeferenced data referring to anthropic phenomena that occurred in the region in the period from 2008 to 2019, generating a mapping of deforestation and use dynamics in the region, pointing out vulnerabilities and potentials of the protected area in the control of forest degradation. The results showed that the highway is, in fact, the main vector of environmental pressure in the region. Also, its proximity to other protected areas that create a sort of shield strengthens the forest conservation.
