Apoyo en los procesos de orientación ambiental a través de la academia y el Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis en la ciudad de Bogotá

Abstract

Knowledge allows active participation in decision making, especially in the field of public policies. An informed community can be part of the processes that are carried out by the institutions, in this case the Botanical Garden of Bogotá with the help of the Francisco José de Caldas District University, since it can influence, debate and build knowledge on environmental issues that are interest to the whole community. In this sense, promoting information becomes a duty that guarantees citizen participation and, if not, it becomes a problem that can generate little recognition of the activities carried out by the institutions and also ignorance about how to take care of the environment in which you live. In this context, the lack of knowledge, appreciation and care of green spaces and urban biodiversity is seen as a problem, indispensable elements to improve the quality of life in Bogotá, not only in terms of cleanliness of the air, access and quality of the water among other ecosystem services, but also as spaces of coexistence and reconciliation, of respect for life in its diversity of forms. The internship addressed activities proposed in the missionary work of the Botanical Garden of Bogotá, which besides being in its physical reality, one of Bogotá's most biodiverse green spaces, is responsible for the urban trees and wetlands of Bogotá, promoting a favorable environmental culture to sustainable development and citizen participation, where dialogue and the resolution of conflicts related to the care of the environment are encouraged. Accompaniment was also done to processes of communication and environmental education, important for citizenship, and that their ignorance causes the lack of appropriation of the corporate image of the institution, as well as the territory in which each community or group develops; This was achieved thanks to strategies of socialization of institutional information to specific communities and some schools in the District.