Etnozoologia : uma ciência voltada para a conservação da biodiversidade

Abstract

Ethnozoology is a branch of ethnobiology that addresses the existing relationships between animals and humans, providing subsidies for sustainable management to assess and interpret the impacts attributed to human activities on other animal species, and their relationship with biodiversity. In this study we investigate the importance of ethnozoology for the conservation of biodiversity, in two chapters. In the first, we investigated the trends and gaps in scientific publications on etnozoology, using the word “Ethnozoology”, in the Web of Science database to search for scientific papers. We found 177 publications, as a significant increase in the last 10 years (R = 0.76), mainly in Brazil. Conservation, animals, knowledge, medicines, fishing communities and folk medicine were the most frequent words in publications. We conclude that ethno-zoological studies remain concentrated on a temporal (last 10 years), spatial (Brazil, northeastern region), and cultural scale (many of the studies involve the use of animals as fishing resources and traditional folk medicine). In the second chapter, we investigate the ethno-zoological practices adopted by the population of the São Domingo settlement, for the conservation of mammals in southern Goiás, with active searches for mammal species and interviews with local residents, highlighting the relationships between socio-economic factors and the use of hunting, to learn about the relationship between the settlement community and the environment, highlighting ethnozoology in the conservation of mastofauna. We emphasize that the perception of mammals in a rural environment is associated with the time spent in years in the place and also the financial income of residents