Situação do sistema de unidades de conservação do estado de Mato Grosso.

The paper's objective is describe the current situation of the National Protected Areas System (SNUC), point out the problems of management and non-compliance with current legislation. With a participatory management structure, the SNUC's network information suffers from a lack of communication between the different agencies. Allied to the outdated official domain, the system fails when should provide data for conservation units (UC's). The Ministry of the Environment, responsible for compiling data of all protected areas has a large deficit of information regarding the UC's of Mato Grosso, 46 in total. In the database of ICMBio, 14 federal units are omitted. As for the management plan, 35 state units and 17 federal units do not have the document. Regardless of the critical situation of UC's in the state, they can generate benefits such as conservation of local biodiversity [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]