scholarly journals Inventário florístico do Mosteiro Zen Horyu-Zan Eisho-Ji: contribuições para a criação de uma unidade de conservação no Cerrado

Heringeriana ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscila Oliveira Rosa ◽  
Giulia Vieira Rivaroli ◽  
Natália Alves Pereira dos Santos ◽  
Pedro Rodrigues de Alencar ◽  
Augusto Cesar Alencar Soares ◽  
...  

Pirenópolis apresenta diversas atividades econômicas e, além do agronegócio, pecuária e mineração, o município tem no ecoturismo uma das fontes de renda mais importantes de arrecadação. Para proteger o patrimônio natural da cidade é preciso aumentar o número de unidades de conservação a fim de perpetuar a biodiversidade do Cerrado e todos os serviços que uma área natural agrega. Desde a primeira visita técnica ao Mosteiro Zen Horyu-Zan Eisho-Ji sua diversidade florística foi constatada. Ao final de um ano de expedição foram coletadas 436 espécies de plantas, de 227 gêneros e 86 famílias botânicas, sendo que sete dessas espécies são novas para a comunidade científica e nove encontram-se em alguma categoria de ameaça da IUCN. Esses atributos apontam para o potencial da propriedade do Mosteiro em se transformar em uma unidade de conservação e, assim, cumprir sua missão de proteger o Cerrado.Palavras-chave: Pirenópolis, florística, espécies ameaçadas, Goiás, Cerrado. Floristic Checklist of the Zen Monastery Horyu-Zan Eisho-Ji: inputs for the creation of a conservation unit in the CerradoPirenópolis presents several economic activities and, in addition to agribusiness, cattle farming and mining, the municipality has the ecotourism as one of the most important sources of income. In order to protect the natural heritage of the region it is necessary to increase the number of conservation units to perpetuate the biodiversity of the Cerrado and all the services that a natural area adds. From the first technical visit to the Zen Monastery Horyu-Zan Eisho-Ji its floristic diversity was confirmed and recorded. At the end of one year of expeditions, we collected 436 species of plants from 227 genera and 86 botanical families, seven of which are new to the scientific community and nine are listed as threatened following the IUCN classification. These attributes point to the potential of the Monastery's property to become a conservation unit and thus fulfill its mission to protect the Cerrado.Keywords: Pirenópolis, floristics, threatened species, Goiás, Cerrado.

Oryx ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Haissa de Abreu Caitano ◽  
Valquíria Ferreira Dutra ◽  
Rodrigo Theófilo Valadares ◽  
Luana Silva Braucks Calazans

Abstract Cactaceae is one of the most threatened plant families, in part as a result of the illegal extraction of plants for ornamental use. However, reports of the seizure and reintroduction of cacti are scarce and do not include species of Melocactus, the genus of Cactaceae in Brazil that has the highest number of threatened species. The coroa-de-frade Melocactus violaceus is endemic to Brazil and categorized as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. We report the seizure of 37 individuals of coroa-de-frade extracted illegally from their natural habitat, the results of their reintroduction to Paulo César Vinha State Park, in Espírito Santo state, Brazil, and provide information for environmental monitoring agencies regarding how to proceed in seizure cases, with the goal of minimizing the impacts of this illegal practice on the species. After seizure, 25 individuals were cultivated in a greenhouse and 12 were reintroduced in restinga, the natural area of occurrence of the species. After 6 months, survival was 76% for those individuals cultivated in the greenhouse and 84% for those planted in restinga, showing that rapid reintroduction of species with ornamental appeal, preferentially in their natural habitat, can reduce the impacts of illegal extraction. This reintroduction protocol can be used by managers of conservation units, contributing to the maintenance of threatened cactus species in their natural habitat.


Author(s):  
Célio Henrique Rocha Moura ◽  
Felipe Moura Hemetério Araujo ◽  
Caio Coelho Silva Albuquerque

From the perspective of United Statian preservationism, where the presence of human beings in areas understood as natural was opposed, the first protected areas in Brazil appear at the threshold of the discussion on the protection of the country's ecosystems, where the dichotomy between man and nature is admitted, and through which instruments for the management of Brazilian biomes and ecosystems are developed. This article discusses the nature management model in Brazil, contrasting traditional management (through the provisions of the National System of Conservation Units / SNUC and which reverberates to State and Municipal Systems) and the conservation management, understood as the modality of management that acts on the patrimonial dimension of nature. This discussion permeates the definitions of Natural Significance, Conservation and Natural Heritage in the Australian Natural Heritage Charter (IUCN, 2002), and through the example of the Mata do Engenho Uchôa Wildlife Refuge (RVSMEU), a state conservation unit by the State System of Conservation Units of Pernambuco / SEUC, it is discussed how the current ecosystem management plan approaches and distances itself from the conservation management of its heritage values.


2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Augusto Leitão Drummond ◽  
José Luiz De Andrade Franco ◽  
Daniela De Oliveira

This is a second overview of the Brazilian conservation unit system for mid-2010. It updates author et al, 2009. It examines six dimensions of federal and state protected areas – age, numbers, types of units, absolute and average sizes, distribution by states and biomes, and degree of compliance with CBD-inspired goals. Major findings: (i) the system maintained a rapid growth rate; (ii) national parks and national forests are the most prominent units; (iii) distribution of units by region and biome remains unbalanced; (iv) state units grew remarkably over the last five years; (v) state units are biased towards sustainable use; (vi) sustainable use units grew more than fully protected units; (vii) Amazonia remains the most extensively protected biome; and (viii) quantitative goals of biome protection are closer to being reached. In 2010 Brazil held the fourth position globally in protected areas; it created the largest number of units between 2000 and 2010; it has the largest combined area of protected tropical formations. However, several regions and biomes remain under protected. 


Author(s):  
Teresa Cristina de Miranda Mendonça ◽  
Renato de Oliveira dos Santos ◽  
Paloma Cristina Barbosa Lopes ◽  
Sandro dos Reis Andrade ◽  
Ana Paula Veríssimo de Moraes

Descrevendo o turismo no estado do Rio de Janeiro, destaca-se o seu litoral. Parte desta área integra a região turística denominada Costa do Sol (litoral norte) e a Costa Verde (litoral sul). Pode-se assim,remeter à ideia de apropriação do espaço litorâneo pela prática turística e aos conflitos existentes entre as populações locais e às novas lógicas do capital que se inserem na região. Este trabalho tem como foco de pesquisa a região da Costa Verde, que sofreu influencia do turismo a partir da década de 1970 com a inauguração do trecho Rio-Santos da BR101. Com a estrada chegaram à especulação imobiliária e consequente expulsão dos nativos, e também a instituição das leis ambientais como a criação de unidades de conservação da natureza de proteção integral. No entanto, nesta região estão presentes diversos grupos tradicionais: indígenas, caiçaras e quilombolas que lutam pelo reconhecimento de seu território, contra a expulsão do local herdado e os limites de utilização dos recursos impostos pelas unidades de proteção. Além disto, reivindicam serem incluídos no mapa do turismo da região. Como grande protagonista local foi criado, em 2007, o Fórum de comunidades Tradicionais Angra dos Reis, Paraty e Ubatuba - FCT que traz à tona questões diversas que permeiam a vida de todos que vivem neste local. Na reivindicação pela visibilidade ligada ao turismo foi elaborado o mapa de turismo de base comunitária - TBC do Fórum em 2015. Assim, tendo como metodologia de pesquisa exploratória e descritiva utilizando o método qualitativo (pesquisa documental, bibliográfica e de campo), este trabalho tem como objetivo investigar, do ponto de vista sociocultural e político-organizacional, como se constitui o TBC no território abrangido pelo FCT, porém tendo como foco de análise três iniciativas: a comunidade caiçara de São Gonçalo (Paraty), Quilombo Bracuí e Aldeia Sapukai, ambas localizadas em Angra dos Reis. O resultado traz reflexões sobre o TBC e suas correlações com alguns temas: populações tradicionais; resistência cultural, territorial e econômica; permanência no território tradicional; valorização da identidade e história local; o direito pela prática das atividades econômicas tradicionais e do turismo.Ou seja, ser uma população tradicional significa uma forma de resistência, que transforma experiências locais em turismo. Um turismo denominado localmente de TBC que significa também incluir no mapa do estado os grupos sociais “invisíveis”. Assim constata-se que estas iniciativas estão ligadas a um movimento político e social que tem o turismo como ferramenta de poder. Community-based tourism in Costa Verde (RJ): caiçaras, quilombolas and indigenous peoples ABSTRACT The coastline stands out in the description of tourism in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Part of this area comprises the tourist regions of Costa do Sol (northern coast) and Costa Verde (southern coast). They are related to the ideas of appropriation of the coastal space by tourist practice and the conflicts among local populations and the new logics of the capital inserted in the region. This study discusses the Costa Verde region which was influenced by tourism from the 70s with the opening of the Rio-Santos stretch of the BR101 highway. It was followed by real estate speculation and consequentently expulsion of indigenous peoples and also the emergence of environmental laws with the creation of nature conservation units of integral protection. In this region, there are several tradition groups – such as indigenous peoples, caiçaras and quilombolas – who claim: a) the recognition of their territories against the expulsion of the inherited place and the limits of the use of resources imposed by the protected units, and b) their inclusion in the tourist map of the region. Playing the role of the great local protagonist, the Forum of the Traditional Comunities (FCT) of Angra dos Reis, Paraty e Ubatuba was created in 2007 to discuss several issues concerning the life of their residents. As to the demand to the visibility linked to tourism, a community-based tourism (TBC) map was made in the 2015 Forum. This work aims at investigating the TBC in the territories comprising the FCT under a sociocultural and political-organizational approach and an exploratory and descriptive methodological framework with focus on three initiatives: the caiçara community of São Gonçalo (Paraty), Bracuí Quilombo and Sapukai Village, located in Angra dos Reis. The findings of the research raise insights on the TBC and its correlation with the following themes: traditional populations, cultural, territorial and economic resistence, permanence in traditional territory, promotion of local identity and history and the right to the practice of traditional and economic activities and tourism. In other words, being a traditional population means a form of resistence which transforms local experiences in tourism and a locally named TBC also means including the ' invisible' social groups in the state map. Our claim is that these initiatives are linked to a political and social movement which uses tourism as a power tool. KEYWORDS: Community-Based Tourism; Traditional Populations; Costa Verde (RJ, Brazil); Forum of Traditional Communities.


Oryx ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Alice Biedzicki de Marques ◽  
Carlos A. Peres

AbstractBrazil safeguards a vast network of parks and reserves, termed conservation units. The creation of conservation units follows a rigorous legal protocol that grants them long-term stability under varying degrees of formal protection against land-use change. Degazettement, downsizing or downgrading any conservation unit requires a law to be passed. Recent shifts in Brazilian conservation policy have, however, favoured infrastructure projects and agricultural land conversion, even when these initiatives are in direct conflict with established conservation units. Several bills have been proposed by the National Congress, threatening 27 conservation units and bringing the long-term political stability and legal immunity of hitherto sacrosanct reserves into serious question.


2000 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 41-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Melchior

AbstractThe discovery by Seth C. Chandler (1891) that the motion of the pole (the reality of which had been established by K.F. Küstner and by the simultaneous latitude observations at Honolulu and Berlin by German astronomers) resulted from two components i.e. a free circular motion with a period of 427 days and a forced elliptical motion with a period of 365.25 days, raised considerable interest in the scientific community of astronomers and geophysicists.The celebrated Mécanique Céleste of Tisserand (1890) had been published just one year before at a time when doubts still persisted and arguments could be presented in favor of the fixed pole. Starting with Tisserand’s arguments, we describe in this paper the impact of the successive contributions by A. Greenhill, S. Newcomb, Th. Sloudsky, S. Hough, G. Herglotz, A. Love, J. Larmor and H. Poincaré to the solution of the problems raised by the Chandler period.The lines of reasoning taken by these eminent scientists were rigorously correct so that, after about one hundred years, contemporary researchers, who benefit from a far better knowledge of the inner structure of the Earth and are able to take advantage of modern computing power, do not contradict any of their conclusions and instead refine them with an accuracy which was not imaginable one century ago.


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Ireland ◽  
Magdalena Zabek ◽  
Carolina Galindez-Silva ◽  
Sara Weir ◽  
Rebecca West ◽  
...  

Conservation activities, including translocations of threatened species, are increasingly important priorities for conserving biodiversity and culture on Indigenous-managed lands, which occupy over 20% of the Australian landmass. In the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of north-western South Australia, the Warru Recovery Team reintroduced the threatened black-footed rock-wallaby (warru) to Wamitjara in May 2018. We outline the unique planning and logistical issues inherent in securing support and involvement of Traditional Owners and Indigenous rangers for predator, weed and fire management, cross-fostering, captive breeding, monitoring and translocation of the rock-wallabies. Altogether, the project cost AU$3.86 million (actual – AU$1.86 million, in kind – AU$2.00 million) over 10 years of preparation and one year of post-translocation monitoring. This consisted of AU$1.18 million for cross-fostering and captive breeding at Monarto Zoo and a further AU$0.55 million for the construction and maintenance of a fenced exclosure in the APY Lands. It is estimated that AU$0.51 million of the total costs were directly attributed to working remote and Indigenous-owned land, with most of the remaining costs typical of other reintroduction programs. Large-scale reintroduction opportunities on Indigenous-managed land can provide considerable conservation outcomes as well as delivering cultural objectives and supporting employment.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 7457
Author(s):  
Gianmarco Marcianò ◽  
Roberta Roberti ◽  
Caterina Palleria ◽  
Davida Mirra ◽  
Vincenzo Rania ◽  
...  

One year on from the worldwide outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), medicine has made several steps towards increasing the therapeutic options against its treatment. Despite the lack of specific therapies, international societies have introduced new guidelines and launched several trials to test the efficacy of new protocols and drugs. Drug repurposing has been a fundamental strategy to find quick ways to fight the pathogen, even if it is new compounds that are drawing the attention of the scientific community. Tailored therapy should be considered to be a milestone in treatment in order to increase drug efficacy and to reduce drug toxicity. Therefore, both drug characteristics (i.e., pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and safety) and the patient characteristics (i.e., stage of disease, comorbidity, concomitant treatments and the mutation of single nucleotides) could represent the key to achieving this objective. In the present study we performed a narrative review of the pharmacological treatment used to date in the management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-38
Author(s):  
Andrey Yu. Korolev ◽  
Azat A. Safarian

In this paper we suggest a formula to evaluate the recreational possibilities of natural recreational systems (NRS). The formula depends on economic activity, accessibility, climate, relief and landscape attraction of unsettled territories. Unsettled territories are consisted with unpopulated areals with different scales and at the most remote points from any infrastructure, the center of unpopulated areals are situated. The aggregate of these unpopulated areas constitutes a natural recreational system - a natural area slightly modified by human economic activities in which recreation can be still carried out.The formula will allow choosing natural fit territories to develop recreational and tourist activities and create protected natural areas. Evaluation of the Perm region natural recreational system was conducted with the help of this formula. As a result, a map of the Perm region was portrayed on which there are some separate sections of similar NRS qualities. Most part of the region (48%) is at the average level of NRS quality. Only the north-eastern and a few particular sites on hills not affected by economic activities, are up to a high quality level (5%). None of the Perm region reaches the maximum score, due to climate severity and inability to fully use the territory for touristic activities throughout the whole year.


Author(s):  
Isabelle Aparecida Dellela Blengini ◽  
Luana Brito Lima ◽  
Isadora Souza de Mélo Silva ◽  
Cae Rodrigues

AA problemática ambiental é um tema que progressivamente, vem ganhando espaço nas discussões estabelecidas pela sociedade civil em diferentes âmbitos, por estar relacionada de maneira direta com o modelo econômico vigente e com a oposição ser humano-natureza. Por isso, se faz necessária a busca por alternativas que valorizem a natureza e fortaleçam a conexão, ou religare (em latim), entre as partes. Uma possibilidade, nesse sentido, é o contato com a natureza por meio das trilhas interpretativas, nas quais os aspectos de uma determinada área natural são evidenciados, transformando a interação de uma caminhada em um momento de ensino e aprendizagem marcado pela reflexão e o empoderamento da importância dessas localidades. A pesquisa teve como objetivo a proposição de adequações na Trilha da Porteira, localizada dentro da Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural (RPPN) do Caju, em Itaporanga d’Ajuda - SE, dando opções e qualidade ao processo de aprendizagem no âmbito da Educação Ambiental. A pesquisa foi realizada durante os meses de julho e agosto de 2018 e é fruto das atividades do Programa de Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente da Universidade Federal de Sergipe, no qual as autoras realizaram uma experiência de ação interdisciplinar tendo como resultado a proposta de uma trilha interpretativa em uma RPPN do estado de Sergipe. A metodologia seguiu três momentos: o primeiro foi a revisão bibliográfica; o segundo foi a visita de campo com a construção do diagnóstico relacionado à qualidade estrutural e didática da trilha; e o terceiro, a definição dos pontos de atratividade da trilha. A área de estudo foi a trilha do Campo Experimental da Embrapa Tabuleiros Costeiros, mais conhecido como Reserva do Caju. Como resultado obteve-se a proposta da Trilha Interpretativa da Porteira, que será apresentada para a Embrapa como mais uma opção de atividade educacional a ser realizada na localidade, valorizando ainda mais a RPPN do Caju. Interpretative trail as a proposal for Environmental Education: a study in the RPPN of the Caju (SE, Brazil) ABSTRACT The environment is posed as a contemporary and greatly important issue, being directly related to the current economic model and to the human-nature opposition, legitimating the search for alternatives that value nature and strengthen the connection, or religare (in Latin), between the parts. One possibility in this sense is the contact with nature through interpretive trails, in which the aspects of a given natural area are evidenced, transforming the interaction of a walk into a moment of teaching and learning marked by reflections and dynamics of empowerment related to the importance of these localities. The research aimed the proposition of adjustments in the Porteira trail, located inside the Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural do Caju (‘Cashew’ Private Natural Heritage Reserve), in Itaporanga d'Ajuda (Sergipe, Brazil), giving options and adding quality to learning processes in environmental education in the site. The research was carried out during July and August of 2018, and is the result of activities connected to the Post-Graduate Program in Development and Environment of the Federal University of Sergipe, in which the authors performed an interdisciplinary action-experience, resulting in the proposal of an interpretative trail in a Private Natural Heritage Reserve in the state of Sergipe. The methodology was divided in three steps: bibliographic review; field visit and construction of the diagnosis related to the structural and didactic quality of the trail; and defining the points of attractiveness of the Trail. The study area was the Embrapa Tabuleiros Costeiros Experimental Field Trail, better known as Caju Reserve. As a result, the proposal for the creation of the Porteira Interpretive Trail was drafted, which will be presented to Embrapa as another option to be carried out in the locality, valuing it even more as a potential site for the research and practice of Environmental Education. KEYWORDS: Ecotourism; Private Natural Heritage Reserve; Environmental Conservation.


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