Monitoramento ambiental em concessões florestais estaduais: estudo de caso no conjunto de Glebas Mamuru-Arapiuns, Pará

Abstract

As a pioneering experience started in 2011, forestry concessions in the Glebas Mamuru Arapiuns complex, in the west of the State of Pará, still lack assessments on the environmental monitoring employed by public and private agents. This study evaluated the performance of environmental monitoring by the competent actors, the effectiveness of that execution and the local forest governance employed in the areas granted. Execution was assessed based on the degree of compliance with the environmental monitoring baseline and the flow of internal processes, plus the perception of the actors. Forest effectiveness and governance were analyzed using guidelines and pillars adapted from international literature. The legal and procedural framework adopted by the state concession system brought security and stability in the face of unstable political scenarios. However, both compliance and monitoring effectiveness were partially satisfactory and dependent on each actor. The contract management body achieved 92% satisfactory compliance; the management plan's licensing and inspection body obtained 60% and the independent auditorsreached 100%. The two forest concessionaires assessed differed in compliance with the monitoring baseline, 75% satisfactory for Amazônia Florestal Ltda and 47% for LN Guerra Indústria e Comércio de Madeira Ltda. The effectiveness of environmental monitoring, in turn, was satisfactory in 50% of the evaluated principles. The forest governance of the state concessions of Mamuru-Arapiuns Glebas in their environmental dimension showed flaws in different pillars considered key to its success, which together indicated the need for improvements in forest governance. In this sense, in order to safeguard forest resources in a medium term, it is suggested to prioritize the strengthening of the institutions' technical and financial capacity, establish a more efficient communication flow between agencies and improve transparency processes