OS ANIMAIS DOS CAMPOS GERAIS (PR): IMPACTOS AMBIENTAIS NOTICIADOS PELA IMPRENSA REGIONAL

Abstract

This work is related to studies about the fauna of Campos Gerais in Paraná, particularly, from evident information published in newspapers of local distribution, in which, vertebrate animals are directly and/or indirectly affected by environmental impacts. Based on this media, the aims of this research were to contribute to the documentation of information about species of animals which are from Campos Gerais in Paraná; to detect environmental impacts related to the species and groups most affected, and episodes were damage happens. The data was collected from 5 newspaper in the period from 1997 to 2001. 34 newspaper articles were selected, and a minimum of 29 species were identified: 07 mammals, 13 birds, 01 reptile, and 08 fish, and fossils of the Devonian. Most of the news are related to the traffic of animals, with the route through this region being confirmed. Factors such as polution by poisonous chemicals and by industrial waste in hydrographic bay spread the damage to other components of the ecosystem, including the man, and the landscape of Campos Gerais itself. This survey, from this point of view, can be very useful and educative as a supplementary methodology for basic ecological and ethnoecological research. It can also be useful as an additional didatic tool, supporting programmes of the high school and primary school in the production of didatic materials to Biology and Science, and, from the point of view of the inter and transdisciplinarity, to other school subjects; and also to Environmental Education. This, when related to the local/regional reality , based on daily facts, and to the Environmental Conservation