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6th edition - August / 2015
Territory Geopark Araripe receives
XXIV Congress of Paleontology
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Visit at the Cretaceous Field - Member Romualdo, Santana Formation, controlled excavation
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Visit at the Cretaceous Field - Member Romualdo, Santana Formation, controlled excavation
The XXIV Paleontology Congress this year is being hosted in the city of Crato (one of six municipalities comprising the territory of the Geopark Araripe) and organized by the Regional University of Cariri.
The event began on August 1, 2015 with a paleontological foreclosure allocated to the formation of the Cretaceous Period of the Araripe Sedimentary Basin. This activity began in Geosite Pedra Cariri in Nova Olinda / EC, followed by a visit to the Paleontology Museum, located in the municipality of Santana do Cariri and analysis on-site excavation controlled in Geosite Park Pterosaurs, in the same municipality where is located the museum. In this region also lies the Geosite Pontal de Santa Cruz, whose cultural and geological value is featured in a unique way: by the geological aspect of the highest relief and the legends that surround the cross placed on top of the rock that geosite.
It is true that the participants will be delighted with that amount of stuff fosilífero extremely preserved with cultural and artistic events peculiar to each municipality. The event closes on 09 August and for further information please visit: www.24cbp.com.br.
* Photo courtesy researcher and developer of Geopark Araripe, PhD by the UFC, Rafael C. Smith)
The Araripe Geopark and the risk of fossil trafficking
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Decree-Law No. 4,146, OF MARCH 4, 1942
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Decree-Law No. 4,146, OF MARCH 4, 1942
The Geopark Araripe as an institution that oversees the natural heritage and have their work in accordance with aspects of geoconservation, geoeducação and geotourism laments once again the apparent persistence of trafficking in fossils of the region. In addition, it states that the fossil snake with Four Paws, supposedly located in the Sedimentary Basin of Araripe, only became known to the institution, after the journal Science disseminate it on the 24th of July and the Brazilian media share the news intensely .
To manage and monitor the output of fossil exists the National Mineral Protection Department (DNPM) which is the body responsible for regulating the collection and extraction. The commercialization of fossils is restricted by law because they are considered property of the Union since 1942. As facts so has occurred repeatedly over the years, the Geopark Araripe relies on increasingly necessary by the competent authorities to prevent the occurrence of this crime.
* Photo: Geopark Araripe
The messenger of the Northeast - spreading event!
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Father Ibiapina: missions and technical agricultural teaching to Sertanejos of the Cariri - regional development which started 150 years ago!
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Father Ibiapina: missions and technical agricultural teaching to Sertanejos of the Cariri - regional development which started 150 years ago!
Between 5:08 August, the Crato municipality will host the II Seminar about Father Ibiapina, with presentations and dissemination of scientific research about the 150 (one hundred and fifty) years of the priest mentioned missions.
Who was the Ibiapina priest? José Antonio Maria Ibiapina the son of Francisco Miguel Pereira and Teresa Maria, graduated in law and has held positions in the judiciary and the House of Representatives. Disappointed, he left the civil life to follow Catholicism. At 47, he started a missionary work, covering the Northeast in evangelizing mission, raising numerous charities, churches, chapels, cemeteries, water ponds, reservoirs. Taught farming techniques to sertanejos, work that inspired the Northeast and especially the inhabitants of Cariri Region.
As can be seen, the territory of the Geopark Araripe, the region of Cariri Cearense, is filled with various cultural events. Check!
*Photo: Public Domain
Warakdzã Festival- The singing of all peoples
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Cartaz do Evento
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Frente da Fundação Casa Grande - Memorial do Homem Kariri
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Teatro da Fundação Casa Grande "Violeta Arraes" (Engenho de Artes Cênicas): local para manifestações relacionadas ao Patrimônio Humano e Histórico do Cariri e de intercâmbios culturais.
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Cartaz do Evento
The Casa Grande Foundation (Memorial Kariri Man with the support of Itaú Cultural Directions), significant partner and collaborator of Geopark Araripe, held between 06th and August 9, 2015, the show Warakdzã - "Cultural and media connections in the Hinterland cariri. "An international event that will bring together guests of various nationalities including Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America.
The Foundation Casa Grande is located in Nova Olinda, Ceara, site of two important geosites Araripe Geopark, where the paleontological and natural assets of cariri region has greater relevance. These are respectively the Geosites Stone Bridge and Stone Cariri.
The exhibition will promote the resumption of Warakdzã celebration - sacred feast of the first inhabitants of the region, Kariris Indians - celebrating an innovative way to spread content and media and cultural connections between people, institutions and collective of artists. Besides forming a large network which seeks to integrate, interact and promote the formation of children and young people from this meeting with the institutional management in living space which is the Casa Grande Foundation and its management related to the cultural heritage of the Araripe.
Sobre este acontecimento, declarou Alemberg Quindins (Diretor da Fundação) nos meios de divulgação dos eventos da Casa Grande: "está chegando o dia de um dos momentos mais bonitos que 2015 poderia apresentar ao Cariri - Warakdzã, o encontro que reúne a tribo dos três continentes para pensar cultura e humanidade!"
Nessa perspectiva de encantamento, o Geopark Araripe tem o prazer de contribuir para esta divulgação aqui na GeoNews!
Para mais informações entre em contato:
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*Fotos gentilmente cedidas pela Fundação Grande
Team Geopark Araripe
Executive Coordinator
Francisco Idalécio de Freitas
Executive Secretary
Nivaldo Soares de Almeida
Managing Director
Eugênio Pacelli Coelho de Sá
Management
José Adriano Cruz Saraiva
Geoconservation
Edvania Ferreira Dantas
Environmental Education Sector
Maria Neuma Clemente Galvão
Lázaro Ranieri de Macêdo
Territorial Development Sector
José Wilson de Lacerda
Culture Sector
Jeania de Brito Gonçalves
Communication Sector
Giane Taeko Mori Rodella
Drafting Team of Geonews - 6th Edition
Textual Production
Bruna Almeida (intern communication sector)
Yara Mabele Rodrigues (intern communication sector)
Carlos Almeida Sá (intern communication sector)
Revision
Giane Taeko Mori Rodella
Design
Carlos Robério
Collaborators
International Relations Office of the URCA - ARI
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