O EXTRATIVISMO DA CASTANHA DO BRASIL E A CONSERVAÇÃO DA AMAZÔNIA NO NOROESTE DE MATO GROSSO

Abstract

The research aims to analyze the extraction of Brazil nuts in northwest Mato Grosso, and analyze the results of the conservation of the Amazon site. Thus, the methodologies used exploratory bibliographic and field. In the theoretical framework that comes with the exploratory research is shown on the concept and categories of extractive, non-extractive development in the Amazon Timber, conservation areas the extraction of nut production chain in Brazil, and Brazil nuts in conservation perspective Amazon. In the description it is methodological procedures, the locus of the research context and the definition of the universe and sample. The field research was conducted in northwestern Mato Grosso in the settlement Sunrise Valley located in Juruena, due to the existence in the community of the main elements that form the extractive chestnut in northwest Mato Grosso.