There is a remote possibility the target area of the Ecological Corridor Project in the Jalapão region come to be cut in the future by a railroad, railroad called East-West Integration (Fiol), part of already established North-South Railway. But the EIA – RIMA main alternative to this development by entrepreneurs and preferable to the route of Fiol is located over 250 km and route of the target area Fiol, passing along the Mosquito River valley, the height of the municipalities of São Desidério in Bahia and Paranã, Arraias and Lavandeira in Tocantins.
Overall, mining only around the target area, not manifesting immediate interest to their core areas, except where indicated sparse availability of gold ore in the Novo Acordo, the authorization of research also of gold ore in areas of Lagoa do Tocantins and Ponte Alta do Tocantins and research applications of phosphate, iron ore and gold in Lizarda, São Félix do Tocantins and Mateiros.
There are several factors typified as threats to the Cerrado, and specifically for the study region, and among others, the most serious include the high rate of fire because of anthropogenic deforestation for various purposes, expansion of the agricultural land without ecological-economic , erosion, overgrazing of fauna and flora and visit abandoned, with less emphasis, but with great potential for modification of regional environmental parameters, the implementation of major infrastructure such as roads and railways.
