Bio-diversity

This project seeks to bring environmental education to the Paracatu (Minas Gerais state) rural communities through the use of bats, due to their great importance in maintenance of Cerrado flower diversity. Financial loss in the cattle raising is also linked to this animal. The project hopes to build awareness in the rural population as to the importance of the bat in pollinating and dispersing seeds of the main Cerrado plant species. Working toward this goal, didactic materials on the subject will be created, conscience-building and orientation activities will take place, an assessment of the bat species present in the region will take place, and determination of the index of rabies contamination and possible isolation of specimens will be attempted.

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