Payment for Environmental Services as a Strategic Tool for the Environmental Conservation of a Micro-Basin in the Amazon Region

The work considered as hypothesis the conflicting relationship between the man and the nature, and it analyzed the disordered occupation of the Amazon basin with focus in the study area. The implications and transformations of the deforestation and use of the soil that cannot impact the supplying areas of goods and Environmental and ecosystem Services, the adverse effects that the climatic changes have been provoking in the water cycle in the Amazon, with mismanagement of use of natural resources, what raises the negative externalities. It was possible to notice that even after years of occupation and devastation of the Amazon forest, threats and pressures are recurrent, marked by the "drag effect", where investment in major projects, infrastructure, easy access to forested areas, and therefore, the biodiversity and the ecosystems of the region are disastrously destroyed. These human actions have caused a reckless future scenery, so, the study analyzed the possibility of integrating the existing instruments Payment Tool for Environmental Services (PSA), an assertive and willful way can promote changes in the management model, sustainable development of the rural properties, with good practices of use and occupation of the soil, with a view to the restoration or recovery of APP and water recharge area of the area of interest. On the other hand, to owners who re-adapt their properties to the proposed management model, with soil and water conservation practices, adequate management of RL, APP, in order to reduce the percent of soil erosion and to preserve the springs, watery eyes and the drainage of the Uraim River, in the suggestion, will be, inputs, appropriate technical knowledge of land use, inputs and financially rewarded.