EVALUATION OF THE SUPPRESSION OF NATIVE VEGETATION IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CONDOR, RIO GRANDE DO SUL

Abstract

Human interventions in native forest areas, in urban areas and in rural areas are more and more frequent. Taking into account the size of the intervention, the associated environmental impacts may cause great damage to the biotic and abiotic environment. Federal Law N°. 6.938/81, establishing the National Environment Policy, brings as one of its most important instruments, environmental licensing. Among the various types of licensing, there is forest licensing which is the instrument of the State's forest policy, comprising services provided by the competent state or municipal environmental agency. CONSEMA Resolution 372/2018 defines that for local impact activities, the agency responsible for licensing is the municipality. Rio Grande do Sul officially has 804 species of its native flora threatened with extinction. In this way, the importance of identifying which species of flora are suffering the greatest suppression is perceived, considering the forest licensing within the scope of the municipality of Condor-RS, as well as identifying aspects related to the management location (urban or rural), forest replacement proposal, and training of the technicians responsible for the environmental licensing Project. The data were extracted from forest licenses issued by the environmental licensing agency in the municipality of Condor-RS, through research and analysis of forest permits granted in the last 5 years (2015 to 2019). The study demonstrated an intense exploitation of few families, the Fabaceae and Lauraceae families being the most suppressed. The largest number of suppressed owners belongs to the species Araucaria angustifolia.