Ambiente recifal raso de Baía da Traição – PB: trabalhando a educação ambiental junto a percepção das comunidades locais quanto a importância da Cnidofauna e seu habitat.

Abstract

The reef environments are ecosystems that contribute to the balance of the marine environment favoring the export of nutrients to the surrounding areas, increasing the productivity of water. The objective of this study was to promote actions on the subject of environmental education with emphasis on cnidofauna. The period of this research was from January 2014 to January 2016, being developed by the community of the Bay of Treason. raising activities were undertaken of cnidofauna through visual census. They were also made dynamic with the locals in order to work the ecological importance of coral reefs and reef environments, with questionnaires to record the perception of these residents. The main results are a record seven cnidarians bodies, with the identification of six species, among Hydrozoa classes, Cyphozoa and Anthozoa. Regarding experiences with the locals, there was intense interest the same in learning more and more about the subject. There was a survey in advance on the knowledge of biodiverse ecosystem in different cultures and then a comparison between what they knew before the information we had through lectures with visual aids and visits to the site, in the course of the development work that provided a range higher on the view that will be conservation and preservation of these environments, thus facilitating the understanding of possible multipliers of environmental awareness in their communities. Educating sustainably embraces a central teaching in what is said , to understand life in a practical learning in a real world with overcoming of our folly of nature and re- curricular participatory prudence teaching children " the basic principles of sustainability " ( Fritjof Capra ) . In order to overcome the environmental injustice, aponderamento of nature and also of humanity , the lack of social equality, all as parts of consumerism , we can see that in everyday life it is necessary urgent transformations ... ( GIDENS and BECK1 apud BALMAN ).