Fragmentation of the Atlantic Forest

This paper discusses the effects of forest fragmentation on the biodiversity of the Atlantic Forest, its history of degradation, exploitation and the mitigatory pathways to biodiversity conservation necessary for our own livelihoods. An important consequence of forest fragmentation is the dramatic change in abiotic conditions, among many others, which will lead to successive extinction, altering ecological relationships, demographic structures of populations, reproductive failure of fauna, spread of invasive species, loss of traditional cultural practices, the aesthetic value among so many other catastrophic losses listed. The preliminary result indicates that despite the increase in scientific research over the last thirty years, public policies, the slow progress on reality, makes our future still uncertain.