Urban Areas and Isolated Remnants of Natural Habitats: An Action Proposal for Botanical Gardens |
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Authors: | Marcelo H O Pinheiro Luiz C Almeida De Neto Reinaldo Monteiro |
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Institution: | 1. Botany Department of the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro Campus, S?o Paulo, Brazil 3. Departamento de Botanica, Avenida 24-A, No. 1515, 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil 2. Municipal Botanical Garden of Bauru, Bauru, S?o Paulo, Brazil
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Abstract: | The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) advocates
an increase of the number of botanical gardens throughout the world as one of the measures that can help to preserve the world's
biodiversity. To implement this strategy, the present work brings forward a suggestion particularly suited to tropical regions:
establishing municipal botanical gardens. It refers to the experience of a newly opened municipal botanical garden in Brazil,
comparing its attractive power on visitors to that of other botanical gardens included in the Brazilian network of Botanical
Gardens. It also presents considerations on in situ conservation in small remnants and on the importance of urban reserves to preserve the regional biodiversity and spread the
conservationist philosophy. The present proposal promotes the participation of local communities making the public opinion
more aware and active, besides being able to counterbalance proposals that support protecting the world biodiversity through
interventionist actions. It assumes that, through actions planned and coordinated by regional and national botanical garden
networks, the measure proposed can mitigate the anthropic actions exerted on important natural reserves all over the world. |
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Keywords: | Biodiversity Botanical garden network Environmental education Municipal remnants Urban reserves |
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