O estudo da arborização urbana do município de Formigueiro,RS, como ferramenta de educação ambiental para alunos de ensino médio

Abstract

This work aimed to verify the forestation of João Isidoro Avenue and Sete de Setembro Street from Formigueiro - RS is appropriately distributed and to evaluate the perception of some students of the high school groups before the existent problems and related to the theme. It was accomplished the identification and the quantification of the arboreal species and existent problems in the places studied through verification in loco and application of questionnaires to the students of high school and to the responsible for the forestation of the city. They were identified 49 arboreal species and 04 shrub species, being 21 native and 32 exotic, totaling 485 copies and it was observed a great diversity of species and the main existent problems, they were the lack of prunings or prunings accomplished without technical orientation, lack of appropriate estrangement in agreement with the load of the arboreal species, damages in stepped on them, conflicts with the electric net, maintenance lack. The students detached the benefits that the forestation provides and practically all of them have trees in front of their residences and ignorance of the same ones was observed on the urban forestation. The responsible section for the forestation is aware of the existence of problems and today the planting of adapted species is accomplished the urban forestation, as extremosa, ipê-amarelo and aroeira vermelha. After the accomplishment of the lecture with the results obtained in the other stages, the students got to visualize the existent problems better as well as the importance of accomplishing the planting in a correct way, to not causing problems in the future.