Ocupação e degradação em manguezal no bairro Portelinha, São Luís - MA.

Abstract

In recent decades, the mangrove has been one of the most degraded ecosystems due to the consequences of pollution, extractivism and deforestation. The current work addresses degradation as a consequence of occupation for housing purposes in the Portelinha neighborhood, causing a series of irreversible damages, mainly to biodiversity. The aforementioned neighborhood is located between São Francisco and Ponta D’areia. The ten-year multi-temporal analysis stands out, based on the years 2014 and 2024, aiming to analyze the dynamics of occupation and degradation of mangroves in the area. In this way, highlighting its essential and exclusive role in the development of the biodiversity that has it as a natural habitat. Bibliographical research, field visits and later analysis were carried out using satellite images to understand the advance of occupation over the mangrove in the last decade. Finally, the impacts on the physical/biological environment and also on the anthropic environment are exposed