Premissas para a elaboração do plano de educação ambiental para a área de proteção ambiental do Banhado Grande

Abstract

The Environmental Protection Area of Banhado Grande - APABG is a large area, which involves a diversity of habitats, fauna and flora, besides covering four municipalities Viamão, Gravataí, Glorinha and Santo Antônio da Patrulha. Being a APA, it is a type of protected area for sustainable use. With few years of existence is still little known and suffers from all kinds of degradation. This work intends to list theoretical and methodological assumptions that collaborate with the development of Environmental Education Plan for this unit. To this end, there was a literature review and two quantitative research where the first, aimed to diagnose the level of knowledge reagarding APABG and the “Refúgo da Vida Silvestre Banhado dos Pachecos”, a conservation unit inserted into the APA. This survey was conducted in the region of Águas Claras / Viamão. The second survey was the mapping of actions in the environmental education in the constituent municipalities of the unit. This was intended to form a framework of knowledge associated with all their reality and complexity of environmental and social relations in the region serving thus, guidance and foundation for the preparation of the plan and the proposal for formation of environmental educators for the APA, aiming its sustainability. The theoretical assumptions are based on the formation of citizenship, environmental awareness and on the Critical Environmental Education.