Reconhecimento do hospital veterinário da UFPA como ator institucional voltado à proteção da fauna silvestre da área endêmica Belém

Abstract

This professional master's study proposes to present the possibility of including the Veterinary Hospital (HV) of UFPA, belonging to the category hospital for wild animals, in the list of establishments described in the fauna protection structure recognized in Brazil. In order to demonstrate how you can obtain recognition and regularization as a wildlife rehabilitation establishment with environmental agencies. It presents, for the composition of the present study, a technical note that brings the history of the foundation of the HV, its legal nature and purposes of action; the normative frameworks that subsidize the performance of veterinary hospitals in Brazil and adaptation to fauna protection standards; the challenges for it to be recognized as a category of establishment for the use and management of wild fauna; and the way in which the HV should be structured in the administrative organization of UFPA. Action-research was used as a method, developed through the collection of data regarding the Hospital scenario, the interpretation of its challenges and the observation about the possibility of adapting to the norms for the protection of the Brazilian fauna, such as Normative Instruction nº 07/2015 of IBAMA and Resolution n° 489/2018 of CONAMA. Furthermore, the importance of resolving the problem of its still non-compliance with one of the categories of use and management of wild fauna present in the aforementioned regulations is justified. It concludes that there was no provision in the environmental legislation for the wild animal hospital category to which the HV belongs, but such a challenge does not prevent its regularization from occurring, so that it can perform its functions freely and with support regarding the necessary care for wild fauna, mainly from degraded areas such as the Belém Endemic Area. Reflecting, therefore, its environmental regularization, a way for UFPA to contribute more and more with a service of social, environmental and animal relevance.