Name: Mariana Pimenta de Alvarenga Prates
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 19/05/2023
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Eliana Santos Junqueira Creado | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Anna Catarina Morawska Viana | External Examiner * |
| Eliana Santos Junqueira Creado | Advisor * |
| Felipe Sussekind Viveiros de Castro | External Examiner * |
| Gabrielly Merlo de Souza | External Alternate * |
| Marcelo Fetz de Almeida | Internal Alternate * |
Summary: The northern region of the Espírito Santo state houses the Complexo Florestal Linhares-
Sooretama, and this area represents the largest remnant of protected Atlantic Forest in the
state and is composed mainly of two areas, Reserva Biológica Sooretama and Reserva
Natural Vale. However, although the first is listed as an integral protection conservation
unit by a regulation that prohibits anthropic changes within the protected area, the federal
BR-101 highway cuts the territory of the Compexo Florestal from one end to the other,
about 23 km, and generates distinct negative impacts for the protected species according
to experts. This highway is one of the busiest in the country and is in the middle of a
process of extension that will double the highway width. In this conflict between the
existence of the reserve and the presence of the road, there are groups of biologists and
ecologists who research the conservation of threatened natural species. A considerable
part of the monitoring studies related to these species conclude pointing out the presence
of the road and its expansion as a significant threat to the maintenance and recovery of
protected areas. Thus, this paper aims to describe and analyze the relationship between
three research groups that work for the conservation of endangered animal species in the
region (Harpia Brasil, Felinos and Pró-Tapir projects) and the effects of the road. This is
being done based on the analysis of their techno-scientific research, which aims at
monitoring and conserving the environment of the Complexo, and taking into account
that these relationships involve human agency, by the researchers and their collaborators,
and non-human agency, by the forest beings. My research was based on bibliographic
review of pertinent social science literature, analysis of articles in conservation
biology and other documents related to the Complexo Florestal, audiovisual materials
related to public lectures given by these researchers and interviews with scientists and
residents of the study region.
Keywords: Human-non human relations; tecnoscience; enviromental conflicts.
