Atividades de caça na América do Sul: aparatos legais e influências na conservação de áreas naturais

Abstract

Huntingisan activity with regulator yrestriction sand restricted acceptanceby the Brazilian population. It was analyzed the legality of hunting modalities with other countries in South America in order to create a comparison of the reality of hunting status in these countries. It was observed that in general the countries of South America allow hunting modalities, with the exception of commercial hunting which is prohibited by 2 countries. In the second part of the work, we expand the focus to legalized subsistence hunters in the North of Brazil, presenting their quantity and spatial distribution It was possible to observe that most of the legalized subsistence hunters are in the state of Acre which has 2875 hunters corresponding to 70.76% of the total number, followed by Amazonas with 572 hunters, Pará with 528, Roraima with 80, Amapá and Rondônia with 4. Tocantins does not have any registered subsistence hunters. This does not mean that Acre is the most practiced state for subsistence hunting, as the data base does not reflect the actual number of subsistence hunters. Of the 450 municipalities present in the North region, only 108 have legal subsistence hunters.