Antagonismos no processo de criação de duas unidades de conservação de proteção integral no estado do Tocantins

Abstract

The creation of conservation units is now becoming one of the main forms of governmental intervention, aimed at reducing biodiversity losses in the face of environmental degradation imposed by society. However, this process has been accompanied by conflicts and impacts resulting from the expropriation of populations living in these areas. The objective of this research was to analyze the process of creation of the Canton State Park - PEC and the State Park Águas de Paranã - PEAP (in the process of Creation), located in the State of Tocantins. The methodology used in this work was: documentary research for both parks and semi-structured interviews with the managers and the community involved in the PEC and the use of audiences of the public consultation in the PEAP. For the interviews he used the snow boll methodology. It can be observed in this research that the process of creation of the Cantão State Park was marked by the absence of social participation and the residents of the interior of the unit still suffer from land problems that have not yet been solved. The process of creating the Águas de Paranã State Park had social participation, but due to the land problems faced by the residents of the other Parks and the possible overlap of the proposed area with traditional quilombola territory meant that the population did not look favorably on Creation of this unit and the process is paralyzed. It is hoped that, unlike the Canton State Park process, the social and economic future of the communities living in these areas will be taken into account, and that the land tenure situation that was the main obstacle of these conservation units already created and in the process of being created may be By public authorities, thus ensuring the creation and implementation of conservation units.