Participação nas atividades educativas e implementação de materiais sobre quelônios e lagartos como estratégia de educação ambiental

Abstract

The degradation of the environment that has been occurring due to several factors resulting from anthropogenic activities such as pollution, illegal trade of wild animals and flora, deforestation, among others, has increased more and more, human beings are the main causes of impacts on nature, however, they are the only ones capable of reversing this process, bringing the need for Environmental Education in order to raise awareness about the importance of conservation and sustainability. Many people keep wild animals in their homes, where many of them are illegally domesticated, such acts often occur due to lack of information. Environmental education as a conservation strategy, seeks to review values and reconstruct principles that serve as a basis for actions capable of reversing or avoiding impacts caused by human action. Among all the proposed activities (workshops, games, word searches, etc.) we had a positive feedback from the public, there was an interest in them when questioning the habits of animals, mainly about the behavior, feeding, legislation and preservation of species and animals. environments. In the activities carried out at the Bioterium, the public was able to get to know the species and it was extremely important for the children to have this contact. In the Reptarium, the public was able to photograph and observe the behavior of the species, sighted by the walkway where visitors have a broader view of the species released during the pilot experiments of the Reptarium.