O uso do Parque da Mata Atlântica Frei Vellozo: identificação botânica como estratégia para educação e sustentabilidade ambiental

Abstract

Society still lacks sufficient incentives to promote environmental sustainability, as evidenced by recurring natural disasters resulting from human disregard for nature, causing sometimes irreversible damage. This study proposes a pedagogical intervention in the Parque da Mata Atlântica Frei Vellozo (PMAFV) aimed at mitigating these consequences. So, this model proposes a pedagogical intervention in PMAFV, with the aim of proposing actions that can target such consequences. An in-depth qualitative study examined botanical identification, landscape ecology, sustainability, and environmental education in the Atlantic Forest. The primary objectives include promoting botanical knowledge for ecological landscape planning, developing actions to reduce anthropogenic impacts on the ecosystem, fostering environmental education in the Atlantic Forest region-currently Brazil's most threatened biome-and exploring the need for preserving fauna and flora using native species in possible interventions, both urban and rural. These justifications and objectives align with the cultural and environmental sustainability of the landscape ,which constitutes the central research focus of this work.