An application to measure the impact of human pressure in flooded forests has become available by the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Institute, located in Tefé, 523 km from Manaus. The software is available for download on the Internet. According to the institute, the tool will be used to assist in the conservation and sustainable development of forests.
The application measures the anthropization Index Flooding Forests (IAFI), which results in a numerical data obtained from the analysis of 15 indicators of human pressure. “The IAFI emerges as a reference and important tool to identify and quantify the human pressure for the development of conservation strategies. The importance of understanding and monitoring these changes is on the definition of best strategies for conservation and sustainable development of these environments,” said research associate of the Mamirauá Institute, José Leonardo Magalhães, through counsel.
According to the institute, the project was conceived over the past four years. The proposal is that the application help in identifying areas that need public or private expenditure.
“The challenge to systematize indicators that appropriately reflect the human impact levels and also aggregate the different stories occupation of each site is large due to the size of the continental Amazon biome. Our research group has endeavored to apply the IAFI in various places of the trough of the Solimões-Amazonas rivers. Over the last four years he has been implemented in eight landscapes include local from Brazil’s border with Colombia to the mouth of the Amazon River, “the researcher.
The application is available for download from the Mamirauá Institute website (www.mamiraua.org.br/iafi ). When you download the program, the user has access to a manual with guidelines on the collection of field data.
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