Survey of scientific articles on the Pedra Branca State Park.
This section searchesgive visibility and facilitate access research carried out in the Pedra Branca State Park.
For better organization, published works will be divided into 6 large groups, which are: Fauna; Flora; Traditional Communities; Agroecology and Agriculture; Environmental Conflicts and Environmental Education
Fauna
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Chiroptera from Pedra Branca State Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Mammalia, Chiroptera)
What is it about?
This article deals with a survey of the bat fauna from March 1994 to May 1998. 24 species of bats that inhabit the park were found.
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Ixodofauna in rodents and marsupials captured in Pedra Branca State Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
What is it about?
The article investigates the tick species present in rodents and marsupials that live in the park. During 24 months, 96 marsupials and 64 rodents were captured, inspected and released. 109 ticks of 10 different species were collected.
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Characterization of the edaphic fauna in different successional stages in the Camorim forest, Maciço da Pedra Branca, RJ.
What is it about?
The article analyzes and characterizes the animals that live in the soil, such as earthworms, gongolos and termites. Different parts of the forest were analyzed, some “more open” and others “more closed”. Studying about the animals that live in the soil and their dynamics according to the 'type of forest' is important to understand how 'the animals of the soil' behave from different forest conditions, which facilitates the creation of strategies for conservation of the forest.
Flora
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Ethnobotany, local knowledge and agriculture in the context of an urban forest: Maciço da Pedra Branca, RJ.
What is it about?
Reflection on agricultural activities, developed in a remnant area of the Atlantic Forest, in past times. Through interviews with 17 residents of the Vargem Grande neighborhood, we measured how the knowledge arising from this cultural legacy is dispersed among current farmers and their families. We analyzed the repertoire of plants cultivated for medicinal and utilitarian purposes through ethnobotanical surveys. Aiming to rescue and systematize this knowledge, traditional knowledge that represents the human legacy in the composition of the landscape, we explain the ways in which the local population identifies, uses and values the botanical resources of the study area.
Traditional Communities
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Environmental justice and the new constitutional rights: the socio-environmental function of the quilombola territories of the Pedra Branca State Park.
What is it about?
The analysis of the socio-environmental functions exercised by the quilombola groups in the PEPB is essential to characterize both the legitimacy of traditional groups in the search for the social function of the property, as well as the ecological, economic, cultural and religious, phytosanitary and political functions. During the work, various types of 'functions' performed by quilombos are exposed and characterized, such as: Function of historical and cultural heritage; Pedagogical function; Religious function; Ecological function; Resistance function, among others.
Agroecology and Agriculture
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Urban agriculture in the wonderful city: family farmers in the Pedra Branca Massif.
https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/idealogando/article/download/230725/29671
What is it about?
The article talks about the resistance of agricultural practices in the city, more specifically in the Pedra Branca State Park. With the aim of debating the rural-urban division, we highlight the relationship between the countryside and the city, tradition and modernity, agricultural production and nature conservation.
Conflicts Environmental
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Pedra Branca State Park: the visible and the invisible in the landscape of a disputed territory
What is it about?
On socio-environmental conflicts, in the Pedra Branca State Park – a Conservation Unit created in 1974 in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. About five thousand residents live in this area, including family farmers and inhabitants of three quilombola communities. Faced with the threat of removal, this population created strategies of resistance and permanence in this territory – adoption of collective identities, identification of places of memory, political participation in spaces for debating environmental policies. In this scenario, rescuing the social history of the massif and understanding that landscape is not nature, but a social construction, is essential for understanding the various meanings and representations attributed to this territory transformed into an Integral Protection Conservation Unit.
environmental education
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Public use in conflict: community leadership of the Cafundá Astrogilda community in Pedra Branca State Park
https://www.academia.edu/download/66188344/Ecoturismo_Conservacao_2021.pdf#page=52
What is it about?
A reflection on the potentialities and tensions facing the community protagonism of the Quilombola community Cafundá-Astrogilda, which develops a project for public use in the Pedra Branca State Park (PEPB) entitled “field class with community protagonism”. The project is inspired by the Griô Pedagogy, which works from the perspective of the oral transmission of knowledge and practices of traditional communities, and can promote a perspective of political activism in the sense of valuing and seeking the multicultural and territorial rights of these communities.