Etnoconservação de morcegos em unidades de conservação de uso sustentável da Amazônia Brasileira

• Autor(a) principal: dos Santos Moraes-Ornellas, Valeria
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Bastos Ornellas, Ricardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biodiversidade Brasileira
• Texto Completo: https://revistaeletronica.icmbio.gov.br/BioBR/article/view/2402
• topic: Traditional knowledge; RESEX; Extractivists; Chiroptera; Protected areas of sustainable use; Amazon; Bats; Conocimientos tradicionales; RESEX; Extractivistas; Quirópteros; UC de uso sostenible; Amazonia; Murciélagos; Conhecimento tradicional; reservas extrativistas; extrativistas; quirópteros; UCs de uso sustentável; Amazônia; Morcegos

The ecological importance of bats implies that the lack of knowledge about their ecology and threats to their ecosystems can create situations of risk to human society itself. Bats find shelter in the protected areas, but they need to be better understood by the traditional inhabitants of these areas. The present study involves an inventory of protected areas of sustainable use in the Brazilian Amazon and a survey of ecological studies on bats conducted in these territories. It also consists of action research conducted with young residents of three Extractive Reserves located in the state of Para who are undergraduate students at Federal University of Para. The action research was composed of a didactic sequence, from which the importance of the Brazilian nut groves for the residents of these protected areas, as well as of the rivers and of an organization network of extractivists, was perceived. Among the environmental problems mentioned, the impacts of illegal mining were emphasized. The students classified bats in a simplified way, demonstrating the establishment of a greater understanding of their ecological importance at the end of the didactic sequence. It is suggested that it is essential to promote collaborative actions between academia and traditional residents of the deep Amazon, providing the conservation of biodiversity and socio-cultural identity in the region.