A EXTRAÇÃO DE MINHOCAS NAS NASCENTES DO ALTO RIO PARAGUAI EM MATO GROSSO (BRASIL).

Abstract

The anthropogenic activities in the ecosystem can cause changes in the landscape work and environmental social impacts from the human activities, such as mining, conventional agriculture, and extensive livestock, that are direct sources of the changes (Drive Forces), more evident about the ecosystem services, but in controversy, they are activities whose are based on global economy. This study hás the goal to evaluate and diagnose the human activities of Alto Paraguai fountain in Mato Grosso (Brazil), with the premise of characterizing the selective earthworm extracting in permanent protected áreas, (APP), in the area of environmental state protection of Alto Paraguai fountain, in the urban areal of Alto Paraguai MT, in Paraguai river margin which constitutes the South América Platina draw. They worried about identifying and characterizing the the social actors (earthwormers), to qualify their social economical activities, means of surviving and the environmental consequences due the work activities. This is a qualitative approach, done through fieldwork, semi-structured interview application, and bibliographical survey, besides the photographer records. For local social net construction, it was done the using of the software UCINET, from Analytic thechnologies (a north American company). First of all, as an obtainet result, according to this studies, the characterization of the state of Mato Grosso was detached, foccusing on its environmental aspects in the level of biomes, putting in question its biodiversity and the livestock impacts. In a more restricted sense, it was done environmental diagnostics, through geomorphological, pedological and slope maps, endind in a thematic map of using and occupation. In this one predominated the using of APA environmental services by means of agriculture livestock. The social net built allowed us to show the dominantes aspects practiced by the earthworms category of buyers, whose joined to the miners and landlords imposed restrictions to the local productive arrangement changes, due the advances obtained by the ilegal earthworm trade, IT Falls is the importance of the study in question seeing that we put in tariff social, economical and environmental situation in APA region, allowing reflections around the using of environmental services and contributing to a tenable local production, for the human welfare, the elaboration of environmental planning purposals and the efective public political fot the Alto Paraguya territory.