Percepção dos Estudantes do Ensino Médio e EJA sobre as Atividades de Caça e Uso da Fauna Cinegética no Município de Nova Palmeira-PB.

Abstract

The fauna of the Caatinga biome is exploited by local residents in a variety of ways: use food, medicinal and breeding in captivity. Analyzing the issue of cinegetic activity, practice popular in this biome, developed in such a way predatory offering serious risks to the fauna, compromising their development and even taking certain species to extinction, we have developed a study to understand the current scenario of this occurrence of hunting activity among young students and adults of the secondary school in a school in semi-arid Paraiba. The objective of this study was to record the wildlife captured and/or marketed for purpose of estimation and feeding among these students of the public school in the city of Nova Palmeira, PB. The research was conducted with students in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year regular average and a class of EJA (n= 26) who practice/practiced of hunting activity at some time in life, through semistructured interviews aided by questionnaire with open and closed questions about the cinegetic activity. The majority of students (77 %, n= 20) said that they had caught some wild animal with purposes of pets. Only 8% (n= 2) of the students said they have marketed animals captured, especially wild birds, with respect to the capture for consumption of meat, all of the respondents have already made this practice, however all said they would not carry out trade, capture only for own consumption and/or their family. We identified the animals more captured for breeding in captivity: Parakeet of caatinga (Eupsittula cactorum); golinho (Sporophila albogularis) and azulão (Cyanoloxia brissonii) and, for consumption of meat: tatu-peba (Euphractus sexcinctus), white rolinha (Columbina picui) and tacaca (Conepatus amazonicus). We observed that the activity game is still lively present among young people and adults that need a popular education of refocusing on the conservation of wild fauna of the caatinga.