Situación ambiental del Bajo Delta del Paraná: ¿qué opinan los pobladores?

CASSINI MH.; TÚNEZ JI

ECOLOGÍA AUSTRAL

ASOCIACIÓN ARGENTINA DE ECOLOGÍA

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2019 vol. 29 p. 296 - 305

0327-5477

The Lower Buenos Aires Delta has been receiving a strong anthropic impact since the XIX century. In 2008, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina published a proposal for a "Comprehensive Strategic Plan for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Parana Delta Region (PIECAS -DP)?. Among its four central objectives, it was proposed to ensure the participation of all the actors involved. Attentive to this proposal, we propose to conduct surveys to the inhabitants of the Lower Delta of Paraná with the aim of obtaining a first approximation to the perception that those who inhabit the Delta have about various issues related to the environmental situation of the place where they live. With this objective, a total of 224 interviews were conducted with the inhabitants of the area, covering most of the Lower Buenos Aires Delta. We found that around 75% of the interviewees considered that there is (i) a decrease in water quality, (ii) an increase in the amount of garbage carried by rivers and streams, and (iii) an increase in the transit of boats. Regarding hunting and fishing, the results indicate that 70.3% of the respondents said they were fishing, while 80.2% said that people hunts, which suggests that both activities are very common in the region. The interviews indicate that the inhabitants of the Lower Delta of Buenos Aires perceive a deterioration of the physical environment of the Delta and that they continue to depend heavily on the use of fauna, both through hunting and fishing.