RESUMOO suicídio é considerado um grave problema de saúde pública que afeta todos os grupos sociais ao redor do mundo. O presente estudo teve por objetivo descrever as taxas de mortalidade por suicídio em regiões e Estados brasileiros entre os anos de 1996 e 2019, relacionando com o índice de renda e de Desenvolvimento Humano. Análise descritiva de dados obtidos junto ao Departamento de Informação do Sistema Único de Saúde (DATASUS). Entre 1996 e 2019 ocorreram 222.232 suicídios no Brasil. Isso representa uma média de 9.260 mortes anuais, 25 mortes por dia ou 1 morte por hora. Houve diferença significativa entre as regiões brasileiras (F=499,15>F(0,05) = 2,17; p<0,05), sendo que a maior taxa de mortalidade ocorreu na região Sul, com destaque para o Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. O município de Sério (RS) apresentou os piores resultados. Além disso, encontramos uma relação significativa desses dados com o IDH (R²=0,18; p=0,02) e o índice de renda (R²=0,16; p=0,03). A região sul do país é a que mais registra óbitos por suicídio. Quanto maior o IDH e o Índice de renda, maiores são as taxas de mortalidade.

The largest feline in the Americas and the third largest in the world, the jaguar is an apex predator in the food chain and a key species in the ecosystems where it occurs, developing important ecological functions in maintaining ecosystem balance. In Brazil, the Pantanal is considered an important refuge for the species, and protected areas such as the Taiamã Ecological Station (TES) are relevant for conservation of pristine ecosystem where the species persist. Thus, considering that this area is located in one of the regions with the highest concentration of this large cat in the Pantanal, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the protection given by the TES for the jaguar population. The station is a flooded island in the middle of the Paraguay river and surrounded by extensive wetlands. We monitored ten jaguars using GPS collar at the TES and its surroundings. The samples were separated into high-water season (January to June) and low-water season (July to December), and the estimated home ranges were grouped as: 1) residents only and 2) all monitored individuals. The stabilization of the home ranges of eight jaguars, considered residents, was determined through variograms. When all jaguars were analysed together there was 55% overlap between the clustered areas of the two analysed seasons. In the analysis excluding non-resident individuals there was 72% overlap between the clustered areas. The type of land cover inside these areas was very similar between these periods. The range of this protected area is not sufficient to effectively protect these jaguar populations, since the grouped home ranges of the resident animals studied are 3.5(wet)/2.5(dry) times larger than the area of the TES. However, the surroundings of the TES have low human impact and no deforestation and, in this way, the landscape context of the station may have a significant effect on the persistence of a large carnivore like the jaguar. However, it is necessary to create more protected areas in order to prevent possible future environmental changes in the areas surrounding TES.