Etnoconhecimento dos cidadãos de Trindade-GO em relação ao bioma cerrado

Abstract

Environmental perception alongside environmental education stimulates environmental sensitivity in citizens, since each individual is able to perceive and interact in different ways to the environment in which it is inserted. The Cerrado biome concentrates high biodiversity of fauna and flora, possessing several endemic species and great diversity of habitats. The objective of this research is to evaluate the environmental perception of the residents of the Municipality of Trindade Goiás, at the Municipal Park Lara Guimarães. The research was carried out on 20 and 21 October in the Lara Guimarães Municipal Park, the park is located in the Municipality of Trindade, in the Center-West region of the State of Goiás, through a questionnaire containing open and closed questions. The individuals interviewed were questioned about age, sex, naturalness, length of residence in the municipality, level of knowledge about the Cerrado, use of resources from the biome, citizens' knowledge about fauna and flora, and region of predominance of the Cerrado. Participants between 40 and 68 years of age obtained better results in questions where they should mention characteristic representatives of the fauna and flora of the Cerrado, where 100% of these individuals were able to cite at least one representative from each group, among individuals from 18 to 39, 67, 2% had positive results in relation to fauna and 56.3% in flora. We can infer that the greater knowledge of the populations between 40 and 68 years of age in relation to the Cerrado is due to the fact that the "old" populations have more contact with the nature because these lived in the rural area.