O conhecimento de estudantes sobre biodiversidade com ênfase em conservação e extinção das espécies, Pará, Brasil

Santos, Taílen de Jesus dos Santos e; Oliveira, Gláucia Caroline Silva de

doi:10.34019/1984-5499.2017.v19.19008

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“…Therefore, schools play an essential role in the acquisition of scientific concepts related to both exotic and native species. There is evidence that Brazilian teachers do not effectively approach these concepts with high school students, despite their presence in Botany content (Muller & Delazeri 2017;Santos & Oliveira 2017;Melo et al 2021). Due to so many difficulties, teachers must seek and develop their materials and methodologies to adapt to this gap support them.…”

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Contact with natural areas influences Brazilian high school students’ ability to recognize native plant species

Sousa,

Medeiros,

Ferreira

et al. 2023

Acta Bot. Bras.

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Limited experiential contact to natural environment can affect the knowledge of the local flora and, consequently, the intentions to conserve it. Therefore, this study aims to analyze whether high school students from Teresina (PI-Brazil) can identify more species of native than exotic plants and the factors that can affect this ability. 333 students from state public schools were interviewed through semi-structured questionnaires and with printed images of 20 species of plants found in the region. The data were analyzed using univariate non-parametric statistics. The results show that living in the countryside positively influenced the identification of local flora, but there was no significant difference in the number of identified plants between students who attended botany classes and those who did not. Two native plants (cashew-96.7% and pitomba-91.9%) and three exotic plants (mango-90.7%, guava-94.9% and acerola-82.0%) stood out among the most identified plant species. It was also found that, for two species of native plants very important for the State of Piauí, the caneleiro (0.6%) and the carnauba (26.7%), the identification rates were scarce. Thus, it is necessary to use Environmental Education and the teaching of Botany to prioritize native plant species, valuing local ecology and ensuring their protection.

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