Adequação ambiental em áreas de produção de borracha natural do Noroeste do Estado de São Paulo.

The work looks forward to show the study on the situation of a rubber production region in face of the environmental law. The rubber represents a crucial raw material for different industries, such as transportation and military. Despite the fact that the rubber tree is naturally form the Amazon region, it is the northwest of the state of São Paulo where the main production of rubber is concentrated. Therefore, the study area is located in that expressive rubber production place and it was chosen by the project GeoHevea of the Embrapa Satellite Monitoring to study the sustainability in the rubber production. This paper is part of the GeoHevea project, which aims to use geoprocessing tools to verify the Permanent Preservation Areas (APP) situation, according to the law. It was used as reference the Law 12.651/2012 and the CONAMA resolution number 302. It was found that 70% of the APPs are appropriate with the environmental law and the main inappropriate use was due to crops (11,08%) and pasture (13,80%). The rubber trees represent only 2,54% of inappropriate land cover in APPs. As land management guidance, it is recommended to focus on changing those inappropriate land uses inside APPs to improve the environmental adequacy. Finally, the methodology seems to be applicable to the present objectives