Saberes ambientais na APA Corumbataí e na APA Tanquã Rio Piracicaba: um olhar dos conselhos gestores

Abstract

Several brazilian towns have protected natural spaces, but one of the recurrent problems in those areas is that many people don’t know their value, importance and meaning. Furthermore, the protected areas can help in the reconnection values contruction with the natural environment making the awareness and the belonging of the local communities stronger. This research sought to identify environmental knowledge at APA Corumbataí-Botucatu-Tejupá – Corumbataí’s perimeter, at APA Piracicaba/Juqueri Mirim – Área I anda t the APA Tanquã Rio Piracicaba from the manager councils members' view, knowing the possible elements that make these places invisible to this region population and analyzing the possibilities of approach/involvement with those people. To this end, a qualitative and descriptive research was carried out using the semi-structured questionnaires and bibliographic research as the data collection method. Among the authors who guided this study are Ailton Krenak, Henrique Leff, Martha Tristão, Yanina Micaela Sammarco e Yi-Fu Tuan. The target audience was 72 members representing the public authorities and the civil society, holders and alternates, from the APAs Advisory Councils. The questionnaire was sent by e-mail to receive responses between January and March 2022. It was identified the need for a historical and local knowledge recue, once these knowledges are considered importants and many times responsibles for the protection of the natural environment. Among the invisibilities found in these areas we can highlight the lack of communication between the society various spheres and the management of these protected areas. Furthermore, there is low demand from civil society in councils, mainly due to unawareness, lack of dissemination and communication resources, low or non-existent infrastructure in these areas and the lack of popular interest itself. There is also the distance of urban centers and the form and technical language that many information is presented to the population. Finally, invisibility also has a cultural and ideological bias once the APAs comprises the natural heritage of cities, but are unknown by some part of the population. Thus, environmental practices were proposed, emerging as viable elements to be treated with municipalities, as well as the management councils and the local community. Among these practices there is the creation of pedagogical games on APAs for use in the schools; the approach of the management councils through the speeches listening and exchanges with the local communities; the creation of fauna and flora cataloguing guides found in these environments and the promotion of cultural and tourist events aiming to explore the potential of these protected areas for environmental education processes. It's considered then the need to make room so that living memories can have a voice, through a praxis of open environmental education subjectivities and collectivities and that provides reconstruction spaces of the relations between the human being and the protected áreas.