The use of environmental education and the perception of the environment in public schools in the municipality of Coari city, Amazonas

Abstract

Due to socio-economic and environmental problems, many people do not know their own inhabited biome and what role it plays in the performance of the ecological-environmental system. The city of Coari has experienced great urban growth in the last 20 years, in which the natural environment has been disappearing and neighborhoods have emerged, these are increasingly populous The Coari population in general has heard and observed attitudes towards preservation of the environment, few give importance, in preserving. The complexity of the country's biomes and their natural diversity, the Coari biome, today threatened by economic expansion, the effects of land use and occupation for the preservation of Brazilian natural diversity. It is necessary to have more effort in the information that is passed on to these students who are in a phase of intellectual growth so that they are renovators in relation to the environment.

Keywords: Biome, population growth, Coari, environmental education in schools.