Dique do Tororó: percepção e educação ambiental dos frequentadores do local

Abstract

This work aims to evaluate the level of education and environmental perception of people who attend the Tororó’s Dyke, one of the green areas of the city of Salvador, encrusted in one of the places of greater movement of the Bahia capital, surrounded by popular neighborhoods. The literature review was made on the basis of digital files and printed, seeking to transmit information about perception and environmental education and a little of the history of the site, which already had a much larger area than the current and still has great social and cultural importance for the salvadorian people, where there is a gathering of people of various classes and is used for important cults to Orixás, taking multiple images in the water and outside it. The field survey used a questionnaire with 18 questions that were exposed to a total of 100 people of various age and you can understand that the concepts of environment are varied, as well as each individual perceives this same environment each one in his own way. In general, the level of education and perception is average, and can be improved, with investment and environmental actions in the communities surrounding the Park of the Tororó’s Dyke, which is frequented by people who have a certain concern with their quality of life and with the environment.