Reading landscapes in conservation units throug field visits: trails for ecossocial knowledge

Abstract

The existence of Conservation Units is not recent, but since the establishment of the first one, their objectives have been established to meet different interests of environmental protection. More recently, with due scientific evidence of climate change and consequent species extinctions due to habitat loss, protected areas are increasingly present in various debates, including the relevance of conceptual revisions and forms of use. Derived from research on ProtectedAreas as Educating Places, the following work presents the clipping of the reading of landscapes in field visits, seeking to overcome consolidated forms of their accomplishments by focusing the protagonism of the action on the public that participates in the activity, sharing with the formal educators and lay people active methodologies based on ecosocial processes, aiming to insert visitors, whether from the local population or not, in the protection of life on the Planet through education. The experience has shown the importance of the collective expansion of knowledge and, through it, the contribution to the maintenance or restoration of ecosystem services that the most varied natural elements provide in the ecological systems that the human species is part of.