Elaboração de trilhas ecológicas para educação ambiental com uso de geotecnologias na reserva da Mata da Pimenteira

Abstract

First State Conservation Unit (UC) of the Caatinga biome the Mata da Pimenteira State Park - PEMP was established in 2012, strategically on public lands belonging to the Pernambuco Agricultural Research Corporation (IPA) in order to avoid land conflicts, however, living populations. For several decades in its immediate vicinity, including officials of this agency, besiegers and settlers of land reform raise doubts about their relationship with a protected environment. In this sense, with an integrative purpose, the objective of the present extension work is to disseminate technologies to elaborate ecological trails, besides generating thematic maps of the terrestrial surface as tools for environmental education of the local population, contributing to the preservation and restoration of ecological diversity. of the caatinga in the Mata da Pimenteira Reserve, increasing the representation of protected state ecosystems as protected areas, generating employment and income for the local population. With the development of the project was obtained an improvement of the participating students, disseminated the technologies for the elaboration of maps, practices of use of GNSS receivers with integrative intent the communities present in the Mata da Pimenteira State Park, was realized the sixth ecological walk with the participation of the CPRH with the park's representative and manager, thus integrating University with the community / society present there.