Contribuição das instituições federais de ensino superior do extremo Sul de Minas Gerais para o fortalecimento da gestão de unidades de conservação

Abstract

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.