Percepção ambiental da comunidade do distrito de Nagé, no município de Maragogipe, Bahia, sobre o Rio Paraguaçu

Abstract

The high reduction of fishing and near disappearance of aquatic and avian species the river Paraguaçu only source of livelihood of the fishing community of Nage, Maragogipe district Bahia made this study sought to know what the perception of the local population and what degree was this ecological impact which people refer to as disappearance of fish. In order to evaluate the environmental perception on aspects of aquatic and bird population, we attempted to use a survey where respondents were 50 residents, whose methodology is given means of a questionnaire with 76 questions about the species, aquatic fish, molluscs and crustaceans and still the most common bird species that lived there. The answers were converted into numbers from I to V, yes or no. The research population was chosen randomly, with one requirement: they were over 35 years old and residing in the Nage over 25 years. The answer to the research attests to the decrease or disappearance of the surveyed species. Another point studied was the protective legal perception, the scope of Constitutional Shares, Popular and Civil Public, which was unanimously negative. The result brought by research denotes a considerable environmental damage, such as the loss and reduction in scale of the surveyed species. This damage brought to light the community a stronger awareness of the importance of maintaining and monitoring the study area preserved in a symbiosis with all local people, alerting them to the need for action to protect your means of survival priority, and may find support, both at the administrative level, in the case of the duty of public administration, as cool, in the case of obligation of the prosecution and protective of the environment Entities, when confronted with disrespect environmental laws.