%0 Journal Article 
%A Anaya Valenzuela, Luisa Fernanda
%T Mining code change impacts on amazonian threatened species: identifying conservation and restoration priorities
%D 2020
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/43942
%X The Amazon basin sustains about 10% of the world’s known biodiversity, including hundreds of vertebrates threatened by habitat loss and degradation. The basin also contains one of the largest unexplored reserves of minerals in the world. Mining leases have increased rapidly in Brazil for the last decades, and new operations are expected to further affect ca. 7000 kha in years to come. Protected areas represent an important barrier to mining expansion, though a number of bills have been recently proposed to allow mining in different categories of protected areas where it is currently forbidden. I quantified the direct impact of mining on the distribution of 125 threatened Amazonian terrestrial vertebrates to date and in the near future, considering four scenarios of mining restriction in protected areas. Current mining projects impact an average of 0.31% of the distribution of each species. Considering new mining requests, in the near future this value may increase up to 2.3% if the law does not change, up to 3.7% if mining were allowed in all sustainable use protected areas, up to 2,4% if mining were allowed in 10% of strictly protected areas, and up to 2.5% if mining were allowed in indigenous lands. The most impacted species have small distributions, which itself increases their local extinction risk. Even though mining projects occupy a relatively small area, they may have a relevant impact when considering indirect deforestation and pollution. Using the Representation Target to estimate the Protection Status of the species, I proposed priority areas for restoration and conservation in Pará that would have a positive effect on 91 threatened species.

%K Downgrading
%K Legislative Scenarios
%K Protected Areas
%K Representation Target
%K Species Distribution Models
%K Áreas Protegidas
%K Degradación
%K Escenarios legislativos
%K Metas de Representación
%K Modelos de distribución de especies
%K Medio Ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala