Education as a tool for environmental sustainability: Conservation of Melanosuchus niger and Caiman crocodilus of the Alligatoridae family

One of the consequences of environmental pollution is the extinction of biodiversity in areas with abundant natural resources. The Amazon is not an area exempt from these events, since there are more cases linked to the production of illegal activities or that do not respect the life of the organisms that live in the surroundings of the companies involved. Faced with this problem, environmental education is a discipline that enables activities related to the conservation of alligator species of the Alligatoridae family, specifically Melanosuchus niger and the Caiman crocodilus.
In this sense, in this work a documentation of the activities and effects found after the anthropic intervention in the habitats of the mentioned species is carried out. Within these cases, there are illegal mining and logging, waste dumped in rivers, untreated water, dumping of mercury into water, among others. As part of the solution, alternative programs are proposed that provide guidelines for the care of the environment and, therefore, the conservation of species. To properly understand, some parameters related to the topic are presented. Thus, the theoretical-conceptual knowledge that provides information on the topic is presented.

Title registered in the National Repository of Legal Deposit of the Ministry of Cultures, Decolonization and Depatriarchalization of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, under number 4-1-3045-2024, and with ISBN 978-9917-639-15-2 registered in the Chamber from the Book Peace.