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Mangroves on the Brazilian Amazon Coast: Uses and Rehabilitation

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Mangroves are enormously important for the survival of traditional communities found in coastal zones around the world. This is typical of many areas in Brazil, in particular on the Amazon coast, which encompasses the largest continuous tract of mangrove forest found anywhere in the world. A multidisciplinary approach was used to describe the patterns of appropriation and uses of the resources available in this ecosystem, through the investigation of the local ecological knowledge of the traditional mangrove dwellers. Semi-structured interviews based on a set of specially formulated questions were used to better understand the knowledge of the local populations and their practices in relation to the mangrove. These people fish, harvest shellfish, and extract timber for both domestic and productive uses (e.g. construction of fishing weirs). In this region, the natural resources harvested by estuarine-coastal extractivists are used for both subsistence and sale. The principal problems in this region are the increase in the population, overfishing, predatory fishing practices, and the degradation of the mangroves. The initiative of the local community for reforesting degraded mangroves sites stimulated projects for the rehabilitation of the mangrove ecosystem in the surroundings of the communities. The establishment of new forest stands and return of invertebrate species, as Ucides cordatus, marked this rehabilitation. Ultimately, it is important to understand that the participative rehabilitation of the mangrove not only guarantees its productivity and the extractive activities, but also contributes to the development of the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of local communities, by reinforcing their perception of the need for measures to guarantee the sustainability and conservation of this ecosystem.

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    It is understood, in the present work, by anthropic action any human activity that, somehow, interferes in the natural mechanisms of operation of an ecological unit or ecosystem. The anthropic action, therefore, is an activity that causes some kind of impact on the environment or in an ecosystem, interfering in their natural functioning (Mellanby 1982). In addition to direct human action on the natural environment, there is the presence of the so-called anthropic elements, such as buildings and objects, which act as agents of degradation and modification of the environment (CETESB 1985).

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    Marcus E. B. Fernandes, Francisco Pereira Oliveira & Indira A. L. Eyzaguirre

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Fernandes, M.E.B., Oliveira, F.P., Eyzaguirre, I.A.L. (2018). Mangroves on the Brazilian Amazon Coast: Uses and Rehabilitation. In: Makowski, C., Finkl, C. (eds) Threats to Mangrove Forests. Coastal Research Library, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73016-5_29

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