According FUNATURA (2011), planning for the management of national states in the territories has been structured as population growth and economic development of their municipalities. The instruments of territorial organization and environmental management are important tools for regional development.
They can be of micro or macro-regional, sometimes surpassing the pre-defined territorial divisions. In the target area have already implemented some of the infrastructural elements of regional development. The road system stand the BR-135 and TO-255 and several municipal roads and endogenous (private). The BR-135 is a very important transport corridor road in Brazil, connecting the South and the North East and Northeast. It passes through the target area over the municipalities of Corrente, Gilbués and São Gonçalo do Gurguéia, in Piauí and Formosa do Rio Preto in Bahia. In turn, the TO-255 connects the municipalities of Lagoa da Confusão and Cristalândia, both in Tocantins.
It also appears the existence of 17 airstrips, not homogeneously dispersed in the municipalities of the target area and the construction of a hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in Ponte Alta do Tocantins, the inventory of a Small Hydro Power (SHP Manoel Alvinho) in Rio da Conceição and three hydropower plants and inventoried in the municipalities of Almas, Mateiros and Rio Sono, all municipalities tocantinenses.
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.
