Experiência e percepção da natureza na infância

Modern society has shown a movement of deviation from nature, leading to a connection loss between man and nature. Since their early childhood, children interact with the world in response to external encouragement, revealing through their corporeality, the uniqueness with which they interpret the world around them. Nature provides a favorable environment for children to develop various skills, expanding their memories and sensations. The purpose of this research was to understand the child's relationship with nature through their perceptions and experiences at a decisive stage in their corporal and personal development, and the construction of values. Based on the phenomenology of experience and imagination, this qualitative research presents experiments on the interaction of children in the nature. As an outcome, it was observed that children need to maintain contact with nature outside them, creating amends with their natural selves and seeing themselves as part of nature. It is concluded that the valorization of the child’s experiences in relation to the world itself and with nature is a possible path for their human and altruistic development.A sociedade moderna tem apresentado um movimento de afastamento em relação a natureza, levando a perda da conexão entre homem-natureza. Desde a sua primeira infância, a criança interage com o mundo em resposta a estímulos externos revelando, por meio da sua corporeidade, a singularidade com que interpreta o mundo ao seu redor. A natureza propicia um ambiente favorável para a criança desenvolver diversas habilidades, ampliando as suas memórias e sensações. O objetivo da pesquisa foi compreender a relação da criança com a natureza por meio de suas percepções e experiências numa fase decisiva do seu desenvolvimento corporal, pessoal e da construção de valores. Fundamentada pela Fenomenologia da experiência e da imaginação, esta pesquisa qualitativa apresenta experimentações de interação da criança na natureza. Como resultado, observou-se que as crianças necessitam manter um contato com a natureza fora delas, criando laços com o seu eu/natural e enxergando-se como parte da natureza. Conclui-se que a valorização das experiências da criança em relação ao mundo em si e com a natureza, é um caminho possível para o seu desenvolvimento humano e altruísta

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data