scholarly journals SCENIC ART FOR SHARK CONSERVATION AND OCEAN HEALTH ALERT

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Karina Massei ◽  
Carlos Alberto Isaza Valencia ◽  
Ana Carolina Assis Sampaio ◽  
Rogério dos Santos Ferreira ◽  
Christinne Costa Eloy
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Theatrical Play ◽  
Shark Conservation ◽  
Ecological Importance ◽  
And Performance

This interdisciplinary research has the playful art as a tool to raise awareness about the conservation of sharks and the environmental health of the Ocean, in addition to the search for the demystification of some concepts bringing to light the biological and ecological importance that this emblematic group represents for the natural balance of the Blue Planet. In the months of June and July 2018 at the visiting aquarium in Paraíba, a space for the propagation of non-formal environmental education, it was sought through the theatrical play "Swimming in Safety, a Sea of Hope" to apply the way of doing and teaching the concepts of sustainability and environmental preservation since the choice of the team, the actors and scenographic materials. Through exploratory and participant research, photographic and video records, we investigated the reactions of the audience before, during and after the play. The evaluation process was permanent in order to make constant improvements. The play tried to highlight not only information about the characteristics and importance of preserving sharks, but also the main threats such as the practice of finning, which through a plot between the pirate and the shark and the echinoderms, it was possible to explain the defence systems that each being has, all of which are important, showing that sharks are worth much more alive than dead. The expertise and performance of artistic activities such as juggling, magic and balance contributed to the success of the play. The results prove that this type of multidisciplinary experience, which promotes learning through enchantment, should be encouraged because it will certainly constitute a basis for future attitudes, especially in children, since they will feel encouraged to protect nature, according to the premises of the Decade of Oceanic Science and Ecological Restoration.

Metamorphosis and Resurrection of Henrietta Lacks

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-260
Author(s):  
Dana Compton McCullough
Keyword(s):  
Research Subject ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Theatrical Play ◽  
And Performance

In this article, I explore the unique affordances of narrative and performance in creating opportunities to linger with Henrietta Lacks. I first unpack the complexity of the story, as we know it, and tease out some of the significant themes. I focus on the metamorphic nature of Henrietta’s narrative and discuss her life, death, extinction and ressurection situated in racism. Without her knowledge, Henrietta Lacks became a research subject. Scientists erased her identity, wishing to conceal their own improprieties in taking her cells without permission. Although her identity was erased, Henrietta’s cells gained immortality before her physical death, and her story is now reiterated in the work of Skloot and other literature, as though the narrative performed a kind of resurrection. I discuss how cell science thrived in part through leveraging different kinds of erasure and resurrection. Then, drawing on my experiences as an educator exploring Lack’s story with grade 9 biology students, I present a theatrical play that weaves together students’ retelling of the story. I hope this article provides opportunities to linger and contemplate the power of science and its role in metamorphic nature-cultures.

Australian Rainforest Seeds

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Dunphy ◽  
Steve McAlpin ◽  
Paul Nelson ◽  
Michelle Chapman ◽  
Hugh Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Grow Your Own ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Seed Propagation ◽  
User Friendly

Have you ever wondered how to grow your own rainforest trees? Is there a beautiful tree that you have always wanted to collect and propagate the seed from? Are you in the business of ecological restoration, rainforest propagation or environmental education? This long-awaited guide to rainforest seed propagation unlocks the secrets to growing 300 rainforest species. Providing specific information on how to sustainably collect, process and germinate seeds, this user-friendly book aims to support a growing movement of rainforest restoration. With invaluable information based on 30 years of research in northern New South Wales, users will find even difficult rainforest species delightfully easy to grow. Seeing a seed germinate, caring for the seedling and eventually planting the tree is deeply satisfying. And, in this time of widespread deforestation, millions of trees are needed for restoration and every tree counts. Whether you are growing one or one hundred thousand, why not start today?

scholarly journals Marine and terrestrial herbivores display convergent chemical ecology despite 400 million years of independent evolution

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (39) ◽  
pp. 12110-12115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas B. Rasher ◽  
E. Paige Stout ◽  
Sebastian Engel ◽  
Tonya L. Shearer ◽  
Julia Kubanek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Polar Compounds ◽  
Feeding Method ◽  
Independent Evolution ◽  
Prey Behavior ◽  
Herbivore Interactions ◽  
Ecological Importance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Terrestrial Insects ◽  
Plant Herbivore

Chemical cues regulate key ecological interactions in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. They are particularly important in terrestrial plant–herbivore interactions, where they mediate both herbivore foraging and plant defense. Although well described for terrestrial interactions, the identity and ecological importance of herbivore foraging cues in marine ecosystems remain unknown. Here we show that the specialist gastropod Elysia tuca hunts its seaweed prey, Halimeda incrassata, by tracking 4-hydroxybenzoic acid to find vegetative prey and the defensive metabolite halimedatetraacetate to find reproductive prey. Foraging cues were predicted to be polar compounds but instead were nonpolar secondary metabolites similar to those used by specialist terrestrial insects. Tracking halimedatetraacetate enables Elysia to increase in abundance by 12- to 18-fold on reproductive Halimeda, despite reproduction in Halimeda being rare and lasting for only ∼36 h. Elysia swarm to reproductive Halimeda where they consume the alga’s gametes, which are resource rich but are chemically defended from most consumers. Elysia sequester functional chloroplasts and halimedatetraacetate from Halimeda to become photosynthetic and chemically defended. Feeding by Elysia suppresses the growth of vegetative Halimeda by ∼50%. Halimeda responds by dropping branches occupied by Elysia, apparently to prevent fungal infection associated with Elysia feeding. Elysia is remarkably similar to some terrestrial insects, not only in its hunting strategy, but also its feeding method, defense tactics, and effects on prey behavior and performance. Such striking parallels indicate that specialist herbivores in marine and terrestrial systems can evolve convergent ecological strategies despite 400 million years of independent evolution in vastly different habitats.

scholarly journals Comparisons of continuous atmospheric CH<sub>4</sub>, CO<sub>2</sub> and N<sub>2</sub>O measurements – results of InGOS travelling instrument campaign at Mace Head

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 10429-10462 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. N. Vardag ◽  
S. Hammer ◽  
S. O'Doherty ◽  
T. G. Spain ◽  
B. Wastine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Measurement Campaign ◽  
Direct Measurements ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Ch4 And N2o ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Gas Cylinders

Abstract. A two-month measurement campaign with a Fourier Transform InfraRed (FTIR) analyser as a Travelling Comparison Instrument (TCI) was performed at the AGAGE and WMO GAW station Mace Head, Ireland. The aim was to evaluate the compatibility of atmospheric CH4, CO2 and N2O measurements of the routine station instrumentation, consisting of a gas chromatograph (GC-MD) for CH4 and N2O as well as a cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) system for CH4 and CO2. The advantage of a TCI approach for quality control is that the comparison covers the entire ambient air measurement system, including the sample intake system and the data evaluation process. For initial quality and performance control the TCI was run in parallel to the Heidelberg GC (GC-HEI) before and after the measurement campaign at Mace Head. Median differences between the GC-HEI and the TCI were well within the WMO Inter Laboratory Compatibility (ILC) target for all three greenhouse gases. At Mace Head, the median difference between the GC-MD and the TCI were −0.04 nmol mol−1 for CH4 and −0.37 nmol mol−1 for N2O. For N2O a similar difference (−0.40 nmol mol−1) was found when measuring surveillance or working gas cylinders with both instruments. This suggests that the difference observed in ambient air originates from a calibration offset that could partly be due to a difference between the WMO N2O X2006a scale used for the TCI and the SIO-1998 scale used at Mace Head and in the whole AGAGE network. Median differences between the CRDS G1301 and the TCI at Mace Head were 0.12 nmol mol−1 for CH4 and 0.14 μmol mol−1 for CO2 (CRDS G1301 − TCI). The difference between both instruments for CO2 could not be explained, as direct measurements of calibration gases show no such difference. The CH4 differences between the TCI, the GC-MD and the CRDS G1301 at Mace Head are smaller than the WMO Inter Laboratory compatibility (ILC) target (WMO, 2009), while this is not the case for CO2 and N2O. During the campaign it was also demonstrated that the new optical instrumentation allows detection of very small vertical CO2 and CH4 gradients, here between 10 m a.g.l. and 25 m a.g.l. This provides a new opportunity of evaluating greenhouse gases gradients in terms of regional fluxes.

scholarly journals ENIS Model of Environmental Education for Elementary School Students in Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 03019
Author(s):  
Budi Mulyadi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Students ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Elementary School Age ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Integrated Study

Japan is a country whose people have a high awareness of the importance of environmental preservation. The environment in Japan can be maintained well not apart from the cooperation between the government and the community together to preserve and protect the surrounding environment. One of the keys to Japan's success in protecting the environment is the consistent and dynamic implementation of environmental education since elementary school age. Environmental education in primary schools in Japan is taught directly through experiments and direct observation in the surrounding environment. Environmental education in primary schools in Japan is associated with several subjects, one of which is the subject of Natural Sciences (rika) and Social Sciences (shakai). Environmental education is also taught through integrated study activities (sougotekina gakushu), through efforts to maintain cleanliness together, through assignments during the summer holidays. The model of environmental education is implemented consistently and with full awareness by elementary school managers in Japan and their students so as to produce students who have a high awareness of the importance of protecting the environment.

scholarly journals Popular Perceptions of Bats Hinder Conservation Actions in Maranhão, Northern Brazil

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janete Santos Silva ◽  
Naiara Pereira Silva ◽  
Ewaldo Eder Carvalho Santana ◽  
Fernanda Atanaena Gonçalves Andrade ◽  
Elmary Costa Fraga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Education Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Low Education ◽  
Ecological Importance ◽  
The Town ◽  
Bat Diversity ◽  
Effective Conservation

Abstract Background: Bats play an important role in the ecology of many environments, although the general lack of knowledge on the relevance of these animals hinders initiatives that contribute to the development of favorable attitudes and participative measures that promote the conservation of these animals and the ecosystems they inhabit. In the present study, 398 residents of eight neighborhoods of the town of Caxias in Maranhão, Brazil, were interviewed to verify their perceptions of bats.Methods: A total of 398 individuals were interviewed during the present study. The interviewees were between 17 and 91 years old, and two-thirds (263; 66%) were women, while the other 135 were men (34%).Results: Most of the interviewees described bats as ugly and disgusting animals that look like rats, feed primarily on fruit, and frighten people. These individuals also confirmed that bats are important for Nature and should be protected simply because they are living creatures. The analyses indicate a significant association between a fear of bats and the belief that all these animals are vampires, and also that women are more likely to have a fear of bats than men. There was also an association between a low education level and the belief that all bats are vampires.Conclusions: The present study provides important insights into the perception of bats by the local population, highlighting the prevalence of mythical beliefs, which hinder the implementation of effective conservation measures. The results of this study reinforce the need for initiatives in environmental education that provide more reliable information on the biology of bats and their ecological importance, thereby contributing to the conservation of bat diversity.

scholarly journals EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL COMO FORMA DE PRESERVAÇÃO DE UMA NASCENTE MODELO DO MUNICÍPIO DE ITAPIRA – SP

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (16) ◽  
pp. 8991
Author(s):  
Anderson Martelli
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Population Studies ◽  
Source Model ◽  
Riparian Forests ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
The World

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AS A WAY OF PRESERVING A SOURCE MODEL OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF ITAPIRA – SPLA EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL COMO FORMA DE PRESERVACIÓN DE UNA FUENTE MODELO DEL MUNICIPIO DE ITAPIRA – SPAtualmente, a preocupação com o meio ambiente está presente na vida de grande parte da população. Estudos sobre ações ambientais que visam à conservação de nascentes e suas matas ciliares se mostram de extrema importância para embasar programas de proteção desses olhos d’água e recomposição desses ecossistemas. Neste artigo, discute-se a importância da educação ambiental como forma de preservação da nascente modelo do município de Itapira-SP. A ação foi desenvolvida pela Secretaria de Meio Ambiente junto aos alunos do 3º, 4º e 5º ano do ensino fundamental da EMEB Gilmery Vasconcellos Pereira Ulbricht, que realizaram uma visita monitorada nessa nascente, sendo trabalhados tópicos de preservação dessa nascente e de seu entorno. O estudo procurou sensibilizar as autoridades e a sociedade para a conscientização e preservação desse ambiente natural, uma vez que há carência de informações e a preocupação com a possível ameaça de escassez hídrica que tanto se alardeia pelo mundo. A partir desta atividade foi possível verificar mudanças comportamentais nesses alunos, na maneira de pensar e agir, refletindo em ações conscientes para com o meio ambiente.Palavras-chave: Nascente; Educação Ambiental; Itapira.ABSTRACTToday, concern for the environment is present in the lives of a large part of the population. Studies on environmental actions aiming at the conservation of springs and their riparian forests are extremely important in order to support programs to protect these waters and restore these ecosystems. This article discusses the importance of environmental education as a form of environmental preservation of the source of the municipality of Itapira-SP. The action was developed by the Department of the Environment together with the students of the 3rd, 4th and 5th year of the elementary school of the EMEB Gilmery Vasconcellos Pereira Ulbricht that carried out a monitored visit in this source, being worked topics of preservation of this spring and its surroundings. The study sought to sensitize the authorities and society for the awareness and preservation of this natural environment, since there is a lack of information and concern about the possible threat of water scarcity that is so much in the world. From this activity, it was possible to verify behavioral changes in these students, in the way of thinking and acting, reflecting on conscious actions towards the environment. Keywords: Spring; Environmental Education; Itapira.RESUMENActualmente, la preocupación por el medio ambiente está presente en la vida de gran parte de la población. Estudios sobre acciones ambientales que visen la conservación de manantiales y sus matas ciliares se muestran de extrema importancia para embasar programas de protección de esos ojos de agua y recomposición de esos ecosistemas. En este artículo se discute la importancia de la educación ambiental como forma de preservación ambiental de la naciente municipal modelo del municipio de Itapira-SP. La acción fue desarrollada por la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente junto a los alumnos del 3º, 4º y 5º año de la enseñanza fundamental de la EMEB Gilmery Vasconcellos Pereira Ulbricht que realizaron una visita monitoreada en esa naciente, siendo trabajado tópicos de preservación de esa naciente y de su entorno. El estudio buscó sensibilizar a las autoridades ya la sociedad para la concientización y preservación de ese medio natural, ya que hay carencia de informaciones y la preocupación por la posible amenaza de escasez hídrica que tanto se alardea por el mundo. A partir de esa actividad fue posible verificar cambios comportamentales en esos alumnos, en la manera de pensar y actuar, reflejando en acciones conscientes hacia el medio ambiente.Palabras clave: Nacimiento; Educación Ambiental; Itapira.

scholarly journals Headwather Recovery in Mindú Municipal Park: An Experience in Environmental Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 605-613
Author(s):  
Carlos Santos de Almeida ◽  
Livia Da Silva Oliveira ◽  
David Barbosa de Alencar ◽  
Ricardo Silva Parente
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Maintenance Activities ◽  
Environmental Activities

The main objective of the article was to highlight the importance of the spring to Mindu Municipal Park, as well as, propose solutions to the problems that were observed on the spot, the research aimed to demonstrate the activities aimed at spring recovery and revitalization of areas affected by degradation. The collections were performed three times a week over two months, from March to April 2018. Being possible to verify the conditions of the environment and how it was before the application of the Park's revitalization and maintenance activities. Being possible to delimit the first activities that will be applied to realize the restructuring and revitalization of the space. With the project initiative, more visitors were found in the Park, and with each step completed, awareness grew about the importance of environmental preservation. Therefore, encouraging visitors to participate in social and environmental activities is essential to sustain the site.

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