Resumo:
The change caused by humans’ activities in environmental areas is one of the main threats to
the biodiversity. The environmental questions in the XXI Century demand that Government
and society mobilize their methods and actions aim to guarantee the perennially of live, to
emphasize this point in scientific speeches and in implementation plans through public
policies, one of them is the creation and implementation of Conservation Units (UC, in
Portuguese) that are considered, for many researchers, the most efficient strategy to guarantee
environmental areas. It was aimed, in this essay, to contribute to the identification of the
position of the Federal Institutions of College Degree (IES, in Portuguese) in the
management’s fortification of the Conservations Units. For being very important to the
contemporary world, the IES besides graduating professionals to the market, also participate
directly in the public policies’ planning and the building up of researchers and citizens that
can absorb the necessities of preservation and understand the importance of this concept. The
Federal, from the State of Minas Gerais and some of its cities: Inconfidentes, Itajubá, Poços
de Caldas and Pouso Alegre Normative’s were analyzed, that discuss about Conservation
Units. Researches and Extensions from IES: Federal Institute of Southern of Minas Gerais –
Inconfidentes Campus, Federal University of Itajubá – Itajubá Campus (UNIFEI), Federal
University of Alfenas – Poços de Caldas Campus and Federal Institute of Education, Science
and Technology of Southern Minas – Pouso Alegre Campus, that involve Conservations Units
and where pointed the Federal, State and Municipalities of Minas Gerais State’s
Conversations Units studied at least. It was used questionaries that were sent to the studied
Conversations Unit’s managers, for IES with the goal of analyze its contribution to the
strengthening of creation and management of Conservations Units. It can be observed that
there is a lack of communication between IES and UCs, that can be mitigated with the
creation of seminars, scientific meetings, informative talks, the publication of research
material in other medias that are not among the scientific journals, but this advance depends
on the change of attitude as many researchers as managers.
