Biodiversidade e interferência humana

Abstract

Nowadays an uncertain path is written about the prospects for quality and diversity of life. The process of the extinction of unknown species grows fast damaging the behavior of the ecological systems that provides the life by the human being exploration on the environment. The resulting impact of this action prejudice the present and future of the generation considered "knowledge generation" facing with scarce natural resources. We realize that human beings may be the next extinct species. This present paper shows educational and experimental activities accomplished with 5th and 6th degree students of Monjolinho’s Elementary and Middle State School in the city of Ortigueira with students that comes from rural areas where there’s no electricity in several homes that difficult the access to the information. These activities occurred in order to raise awareness about the discussion of issues related to the impacts on the environment and ecological systems and its importance for the biodiversity putting it in the social, economical and historical context having the experimental practical activity of the replanting of the school’s area with native species of the region adding education for sustainable development values to the students. With the attitudes approached theoretical and experimental is expected the development of an including and innovative society that could be able to rescue the awareness and save the extinction of the human species.