Despite the concern with the ecological restauration cost, those scientific work that
seek to qualify them, are still rare, as well as the development of new restoration
technology, mainly in Brazil. Based on this scenario, the current experimental
research was intended to produce qualitative information of the altered áreas and
econometric information of the ecological restorative implentation methods at
Floresta Estadual do Antimary – FEA (Antimary State Forest) in Bujari and Sena
Madureira cities, state of Acre, Brazil. The conducted studies were: To identify the
types of forest degradation at FEA, to recomend ecological restoration methods at
FEA, to perform a forecast cost, per hectare, of the environmental restoration at FEA
and identify the main activities that were undertaken on each operation technique
highlighting the consumed resources by the activity’s implementation techniques: the
mangement of the assisted natural regeneration and nucleation method. The used
methods for the forecast costs were Activity-Based Costing – ABC. The used method
focused the identification of the altered áreas through field visits and plot
establishment of 50 x 50 meters in altered areas at FEA. For the purpose of
subsidizing the State Department of the Environment (Secretaria de Estado de Meio
Ambiente – SEMA/Acre) as the choice of the suitable ecological restoration method
and the allocation of the designed resources to the environmental restoration at FEA.
The generated results permitted to infer the following conclusions: The most common
degradation types at FEA are grasslands for the cattle, abandoned grasslands and
subsistence agriculture plots. The assisted natural regeneration and nucleation
method were considered the most suitable for the area. Therefore, each step of the
work permited the identification of the activities and the calculation of the costs
separately highlighting the activities that most impacted the final composition of the
reastauration costs. It was calculated for the natural regeneration method assisted in
abandoned grassland areas the value of R$ 38,538.60, as for the assisted natural
regeneration with enrichment planting in abandoned grassland areas R$ 20,592.28
and for the ecological nucleation method in a combination of 4 techniques the value
of R$ 40,405.48. The isoleted activity was the one that most encumbered all the
other ecological restoration methods studied at FEA.
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