Corredores de biodiversidade como meios de conservação ecossistêmica em larga escala no Brasil: uma discussão introdutória ao tema

Abstract

This article discusses concepts of Biodiversity Corridors in Brazil, the history of its creation and the reasons for its implementation. It provides examples and sets the regulatory aspects and pathways thought to become viable in the country, and forms of management. It further states that, in the case of a strategy to conserve biodiversity at the ecosystem scale harmonized together with human activities, Biodiversity Corridors are able to form large mosaics articulated in a network, based upon the implantation of physical-biotic connectivity bridges of between conservation areas to enable the flow biotic. It highlights that the strategy for its implementation should involve all social actors and should draw attention to the fact that although they are not political and administrative units, the corridors are embedded in defined social areas, mainly the challenges for their deployment, especially those related to the paradigms of existing production systems, calling the government to encourage their creation.