Etapa Arajara Park reunió más de 500 atletas

Since then, more than 2,700 fossils have been delivered to the museum and to this day the workers of Cariri Stone (Geosite located in the municipality Nova Olinda / EC, neighbor to Santana do Cariri) donate fossil that they recognize as new to the Museum.

 

Recognizing this initiative, an action that was positive was recently created another project with similar sequence. Popularly called "Shed of Knowledge", this project has goals similar to the first, except that this time will have as target audience, the workers of Cariri stone. How many of them are illiterate, the "Shed of Knowledge" which is supported by the owner of the mining company and the Department of Education of the Municipality of Nova Olinda, objective work literacy / literacy and technical training on geology, biodiversity and Paleontology Sedimentary Basin Araripe these workers. Building with them the dignity of being able to read and specialty are technical guides for numerous site visitors. Thus, according to Francisco Idalécio, "this project is a more specific restructuring of 'Young Paleontologists'".

 

INTERVIEW

 

EX "YOUNG paleontologist" DO GEOPARK ARARIPE
During the Third Symposium of Geological Heritage / III GeoBRheritage, the Communication Araripe Geopark had the pleasant surprise to find a former member of the project "Young Paleontologists", developed from 2012 to mid-2014, in the municipality of Santana do Cariri. At the time, we took the opportunity to interview her and know about their recent achievements with regard to studies, along with his recent working partner, Amanda Moreira Sá and rescue his memory about the time that participated in the project.

 

COMMUNICATION GEOPARK ARARIPE (CGA): Full name?
LETÍCIA: Leticia Lacerda Freire

 

(CGA): In which period you participated in the project "Young Paleontologists"?
LETÍCIA: 2012 to 2013. A year.

 

(CGA): Currently, what do you study?
LETÍCIA: I do Environmental Engineering at the Federal Institute of Ceará, in Juazeiro do Norte Campus.

 

(CGA): What is the title of his panel presented here at this event?
LETÍCIA: Action Plan for the Environmental Diagnosis in Limestone extraction of Mines Laminate, in the Sedimentary Basin of Araripe.

 

(CGA): "Translating" this title to lay ...?
LETÍCIA: [laughs] This work is a step in a larger project, whose ultimate goal is to develop an Environmental Management System. And the Project name is Angaturama. This name was given to the project because of the fossils found in the Araripe Basin was Angaturama limai. And the name "Angaturama" means protective spirit. And one of our goals is to protect the heritage, protect the region [Araripe] being explored. Then, to prepare an Environmental Management System there is a standard which is ISO 1401, that "tells" the guidelines and the steps to follow. And one of the steps is the "Plan of Action" planning in which to identify the environmental aspects. So first we made a few visits, literature review, consultation with agencies responsible for extraction, to collect data on the primary environmental aspects. And then we chose the impacts related to the health of workers, parameters, impacts related to economic sector, even has a suggestion to create a certification for miners (for the entrepreneur to participate) and the direct environmental impacts of the areas already degraded and the amount of water and energy is spent during the mineral extraction process (...). Therefore, this work that we brought here, has all the methodology, all parameters we choose to act in the management system.

 

(CGA): The idea of ​​certification for miners already exists, right?
LETÍCIA: Yes, there is the idea, but has not been implemented yet because missing parameters to be set. And our work can contribute to this.

 

(CGA): Do you personally believe that certification is a way to build the idea of ​​environmental protection starting from the workers themselves of Cariri Stone? Because?
LETÍCIA: Yes. Because the worker's license is one of the requirements of certification and this can attract entrepreneurs who condone with the "Green Marketing".

 

(CGA): What about the project "Young paleontologists," what contribution you get from personal experience?
LETÍCIA: When I joined the project, I was in high school and has enjoyed the environmental area and also lived in the region that had the extraction of limestone laminate. But had no view of the scale of the process, the environmental impacts occurring, because of the size of the mining activity. There was an awakening very important both now in the fifth semester of Engineering I went back there to check these things, because it was also one of the first jobs I did [Young Paleontologists] and that motivated me for the academic world (...) bring environmental education to the proposal to value the worker Cariri Stone, for me it was very interesting.

 

(CGA): And as "came" Amanda?
LETÍCIA: [laughs] Amanda, I met her in the Environmental Engineering Course and I told her about the project "Young Paleontologists" I was presenting the situation in the region for her, the work that I developed there and she was interested and engaged this project [of the Environmental Engineering course] and today she is with us in the actions of the Plan and Management System.

 

(CGA): Amanda, to add greater value to what Leticia told us about their participation in the Geopark Project, tells us: where you came from? Why is it important for us Araripe Geopark publicize it, a person who was reached by a "young paleontologist," which was multiplying, right?

AMANDA: I live in Crato and there does not have this Mining activity and I had no contact with this view, with the prospect of these actions. Hence, when I entered the course and I met Leticia, we did some courses in common, for example one that was at the Open University of the Northeast, on sustainability, that's when we saw that there were common issues. And he had also participated in work on ICMBio with projects, that even during the primary and secondary schools. So, we were talking and ideas have emerged to work in pairs. And we have several other projects together like this presented here. It has an on composting, we have fellowship to work in the sanitation area: Sewage Treatment. It is ... to monitor Juazeiro stabilization ponds ... Got it? So, we have other projects together in other areas! (...)

(CGA): And the scholarship you mentioned is for ...?

AMANDA: The Le has scholarship from the Federal Institute to study on the degradation of organic matter and I have a scholarship to the Pathogenic Microorganisms removal in stabilization ponds. We both have purse PROBEC at the Federal Institute of Ceará.