Percepção ambiental dos moradores do entorno da reserva biológica do Tinguá RJ

Abstract

This work had as main objective to investigate the Environmental Perception (PA) of the residents of the Tinguá Biological Reserve, Xerém, in the municipality of Duque de Caxias. The study of BP has been an important tool for understanding the relationship between man and the environment. The detailed research of the PA provides subsidies for the elaboration of proposals that present viable solutions to the problems existing in the management of the Unit and the delimitation of strategies that provide measures of integration of the community with nature. As specific objectives, the study analyzed the three main aspects of the relation of the residents with the Rebio, they are: knowledge, perception and expectations, besides comparing these results with the environmental perception of the inhabitants of the surroundings of the municipality of Nova Iguaçu to understand the reality. Of the two more densely populated municipalities that are around the reserve in order to point out suggestions that will corroborate the best relationship between community and biological reserve. The methodology used to reach these results was based on the qualitative research and had as instrument the field research with application of questionnaires and interview. It was observed from the results that the biological reserve of Tinguá presents problems related to the public use for the leisure of intense form in the two municipalities and the communities go through lack of basic infrastructure, fact that takes the inhabitants to a confusion between the sphere of Municipal and federal authorities. Xerém, in Duque de Caxias, presents an intense movement inside the unit as a leisure area by the visitors; In Vila do Tinguá, in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, this use is more intense in sites and farms for leisure. However, the two communities feel abandoned by the two spheres of power because they live with tourism that degrades the forest and generates a large amount of solid waste, as well as drug use within the Rebio that occurs due to lack of security and control in the region. In the municipality of Xerém, the waste is left inside the unit by the bathers and, it is removed by the residents, the city hall does not carry out the collection in the whole neighborhood, nor within the unit and the absence of the management of REBIO is greater than in the neighboring municipality, This happens due to the location of the headquarters, which is located in Nova Iguaçu. Even with the problems and conflicts mentioned above, residents perceive Rebio as important in their lives and do not want to leave the region where they live and enjoy being in constant contact with nature, but expect an improvement in the neighborhood in terms of public services And a better structure within the unit