The tourism as alternative for recovery of degraded areas for mining.

The great increment in the production mining would provoke interferences in the environment drastically promoting the suppression of the vegetation, modifying the landscape and disturbing the ecosystem totally. The recovery of those areas is a demand of the effective environmental legislation that it is discussed in this article starting from a revision bibliographical. This study approaches as theme the several forms of recovery of areas environmental damaged for the mining, as, for instance, the techniques of handling of native species and, it also demonstrates, as main objective of this article, that the tourist activities is a great alternative for recovery of those areas. It is ended that the tourism can change the picture of environmental and commercial depreciation of the degraded area, improving the quality of the communities, generating new jobs and joining cultural value to the place.