Evaluación de riesgos ambientales producidos por la actividad ganadera en la Finca Criadero Charoláis, cantón Morona.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to carry out the Environmental Risk Assessment of the livestock activity in the "Criadero Charoláis" farm by means of the UNE 150008: 2018 Standard and the elaboration of a Risk Prevention and Mitigation Plan. The initial data collection contemplated the description of each livestock activity that is carried out on the farm, the identification of environmental hazards understood the problems of how and why dangerous events occur and if they can cause damage to the environment and its possible consequences in the human environments, ecological and socioeconomic, in case of an alleged occurrence of a risk scenario. The rating was carried out by 3 experts in the field, who were in charge of rating 12 risk scenarios (8 endogenous and 4 exogenous scenarios) that were ranked for environmental risk assessment, establishing probability and severity index in the identified hazards. The results obtained determined a greater total risk in scenarios 1 and 2 corresponding to the contamination of water and soil, on the contrary, scenarios 5 and 12 corresponding to the proliferation of insects and fumigation with agrochemicals in neighboring farms have a lower risk; in conclusion, a moderate risk was obtained in 10 of the scenarios and the remaining 2 of slight risk.