Pesticide Pollution in the Brazilian Pampa: Detrimental Impacts on Ecosystems and Human Health in a Neglected Biome

The Brazilian Pampa biome covers half of Rio Grande do Sul state, in the extreme south Brazil, creating an ecotone zone with Atlantic Forest and bordering Pampa’s territory belonging to Uruguay Argentina. is a non-forest mainly composed grasslands mosaics grassland-forest vegetation. This shows significant animal plant diversity, contributing maintenance important ecosystem services, including CO2 capture, pollination, water cycle regulation. However, forestry plantations, inappropriate cattle ranching, mining activities, unplanned urbanization, cultivation monocultures (soy, rice, tobacco, other cash crops) significantly threaten conservation biome. A major problem observed Pampa, due great connection this agricultural areas, pesticide pollution, which affects health humans animals that occupy region. robust body evidence indicates aquatic terrestrial ecosystems are extensively contaminated pesticides, as indicated by studies involving biomarkers analyses performed on soil samples. Human also suggest pesticides affect different systems, facilitating onset various chronic diseases. Brazil’s actions policies have special focus forest ecosystems, neglecting biomes thus aggravating problems related conservation. In article, we discuss some caused pollution drawing attention need for intensification focused promotion human environmental health. Finally, bioecological bioeconomy alternative progress its economic development but less dependency detrimental activities