ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION IN THE STATE OF SAO PAULO, BRAZIL: GUIDANCES, GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.3172292215123

• Palavras-chave: Ecological Restoration, Forest Restoration, Environmental Legislation, SMA Resolution 32/2014, SARE.

• Keywords: Ecological Restoration, Forest Restoration, Environmental Legislation, SMA Resolution 32/2014, SARE.

• Abstract:

  Brazil, specifically the state of São Paulo, is at the forefront in legislating on ecological restoration. Since the first resolution, published in 2001, by the Secretary of the Environment of the State of São Paulo with the objective of providing guidelines and guidelines for Heterogeneous Reforestation with native species, others were published in which the knowledge acquired was incorporated as they put it. techniques for planting and recovering degraded areas are put into practice. However, previous resolutions (from Resolution SMA 21/2001 to Resolution of SMA 08/2008) focused on techniques to be used in planting seedlings in the total area to be restored without leaving room for other methods – sometimes more appropriate and access to certain areas – a fact that has led to criticism from professionals and scientists linked to the field of ecological restoration. The current São Paulo state legislation, Resolution SMA 32/2014 and its complement, Ordinance CBRN 01/2015, replaced the term Heterogeneous Reforestation with Ecological Restoration, expanding the objective of the forest restoration process and also changing the previous focus on the method used and emphasizing the result to be obtained; in other words, the establishment of a self-sustaining ecosystem.