Aplicação de geotecnologias em manejo florestal comunitário.

Abstract

Autonomy of community management plan holders is necessary for decision making in accordance with what the legislation on forest management and community forest management advocates. Traditional communities have relied on Normative Instructions that regulate community management in Conservation Units to make sustainable use of the land where they live. In this context, the responsibilities of these community members also grow so that they are able to perform good management in the management plans with the use of forestry exploitation techniques which reduce the environmental impacts generated by logging activities, and with this increase the accuracy degree of the tracking in the Forest Inventory by encouraging insertion of geotechnologies in a community forest management area in the Amazon. Given this scenario, the study was carried out in a community forest management plan in Porto de Moz in the state of Pará, Brazil, based on slope data in a digital map generated from the Modeflora technique. Community managers received technical training on tracking to collect environmental characteristics of the 100% Forest Inventory area of the Annual Production Unit 2. However, it was proposed to use an application called Avenza Maps to facilitate handling and collecting this information, installed on the cell phones of the community members in the role of trackers. From the Microzoning Map of the Annual Production Unit 2, it was possible to subsidize the infrastructure planning team to make the exploitation stage faster and more dynamic with precise tracking, avoiding construction of roads in permanent preservation areas, in addition to making managers more involved and autonomous in the forest management stages. In order to demonstrate the positive environmental impacts, mandatory data from the Post Exploitation Report of Annual Production Units 1 and 2 were compared to verify the quantitative percentage and in hectares of secondary road areas implanted in the managed areas; furthermore, a quantitative percentage and in hectares of the implementation of secondary roads in permanent preservation areas based on vector information tracked in the field. In addition to becoming a standard in community forestry, handling the application in the 100% Forest Inventory tracking stage generated results such as increased accuracy of the area’s environmental characteristics, as well as facilitating the infrastructure planning stage with a low intensity of infrastructure implementation in permanent preservation areas, generating a reduction in environmental impacts arising from the activity, and also adding autonomy and security to community managers in planning and executing forest extraction activities.