A educação ambiental como estratégia para a sensibilização sobre a importância ecológica de mamíferos aquáticos e semiaquáticos da Amazônia

Abstract

This work had as objective to promote environmental education to raise awareness of the ecological importance Of aquatic mammals and semiaquáticos the Amazon by means of lectures to students enrolled In the series of second and third year of the average education of a public school located in a community in the municipality Careiro da Vázea – AM. These lectures were dealt with general knowledge about reproduction, ecological importance, and the status of conservation of aquatic mammals and semiaquáticos, because they treat animals that can occur in these municipalities and also on behalf of all these are in some degree of threat. For data collection was used an initial questionnaire with students to explore its conception with about the subject and after the lectures in addition to the discussion on the theme with the same There was the implementation of a final questionnaire to verify which was the change in these conception. In a general way, the lecture was efficient in the sense of promoting environmental education which is evidenced through the answers obtained by the application of the final questionnaire in comparison with the initial ideas of these students at the beginning of the application of this research, verifying if this positive result for the proposed objective.