Brazilian Institute

The fauna comes back to get fat. In the Caatinga the ararinha-blue one lives, threatened of extinguishing. The last unit of the species living in the nature more was not seen since the 2000 end. Other animals of the region are the frog – cururu, wing-white, agouti, opossum, pre, deer-catingueiro, armadillo-peba and the sagi-do-northeast, among others. It exists a proposal of creation in captivity of small animals of the half-barren fauna, the example of the agouti, pre, capivara etc. as inhibition of the predatory hunting (MENDES, 1987, p.65).

About 20 million Brazilians they live in the region covered for the Caatinga, in almost 800 a thousand km of area. When it does not rain, the man of the hinterland and its family needs to walk kilometers in search of the water of dams. The climatic irregularity is one of the factors that more intervene with the life of sertanejo. Exactly when it rains, the ground pedregoso does not obtain to store the water that falls and the high temperature (average between 25 C and 29 C) provokes intense evaporation. In the long estiagem the sertes are, many times, semideserts that, although the darkened weather, does not costumam to receive rain. The Creation of Areas Protected in the Caatinga With the objective to protect biomas Brazilian, also caatinga, comes all growing in the country the creation of Units of Conservation with the incentive of the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and of the Natural resources You renewed – Ibama. Having for base the Decree n.