O sistema de conservação biológica do estado do ceará: diagnóstico e recomendações

Abstract

The conservation of the Caatinga's biological diversity have been neglected in Ceará. Despite occupying most part of the state, the government have created few conservation unities in this ecosystem. A database about the state's protected areas was created from official data and was analyzed with the aim to create technical and scientific subsidies to the allocation of new conservation unities in Ceará. There were 81 records of protected areas, but these protect only 7,7% of the state's area, and 82,9% of this total protected area is located in highland areas. This spatial imbalance in the conservation system implies a low capacity of effective protection of the biological diversity, since 91,8% of this area is protected in the regimen of sustainable use. This situation urgently mandates the creation of more conservation unities in the Depressão Sertaneja, as well as the rise in the total protected area of the state, especially in the full protection regimen.