Infrações Ambientais Contra a Flora nas Regiões do Baixo Amazonas e Tapajós, Pará, no Período de 2009 a 2018

Abstract

From the categories of crimes prescribed in the Law number 9.605/1998 – Law of Environmental Crimes – and in the Federal Decree number6.514/2008, the infractions against the flora in the Brazilian states present higher averages in too many categories, which demands furtherinvestigation into the types of breaches registered by environmental inspections. The present study has the objective to diagnose and analyzethe environmental breaches committed against the flora in the regions of the Baixo Amazonas and Tapajos, in the state of Pará, registeredfrom the period of 2009-2018, by the State Secretary of the Environment and Sustainability. Bibliographic and documental searches weredone in 767 breaches drawn up against the flora between 2009- 2018 in 19 municipalities in the areas of study. The results showed thatSantarem and Novo Progresso were the municipalities with the most environmental infractions against the flora in the Baixo Amazonas andTapajos region, respectively. The type of breach with the greatest occurrence was the deforestation and destruction of vegetation. Areas of„Legal Reserve‟ and „Areas of Permanent Preservation‟ were the most affected by the illegal deforestation. Approximately 59% of thebreaches enforced were incidences over the area of the deforestation of a size of less than 5 hectares. Besides this around 50% of thebreaches occurred in privately owned land and the citizens were the principle offenders against the flora. In this way the study re enforces thatthe forests, one of the principal Amazonian Resources, creates a severely threatened environment. That being said, the presence of the stateshould be intense in 2 ways: to incentivize and guarantee the environmental sustainability to realize greater inspections in the areasresearched