The HUEMG Herbarium as an instrument for socializing teaching and extension in the Vale do Carangola region – MG Braz Antônio Pereira Cosenza, Alexandre Bittencourt

Abstract

Botany is one of the most affected areas in terms of teaching and extension. Whether due to the complexity of terms, difficulties in approaches, precariousness of materials and consolidated environments in which to work. Botanical collections, especially herbariums, have been an essential tool, especially in teaching and extension activities. The HUEMG Herbarium, at the State University of Minas Gerais, has a structure already implemented and consolidated since 2005, with a focus on documenting and identifying the regional flora, supporting and proposing teaching, research and extension activities, providing services to the community, such as identification of plants, forest inventories and floristic surveys, in addition to maintaining exchanges with similar national and international entities to expand the collection and exchange scientific information and train human resources for both students and teachers. Through the activities developed by HUEMG, such as the socialization of information on plant biodiversity and participatory and creative action, through teaching and extension, it promotes, within the University and outside it, greater appreciation of Botany and its related areas, in addition to contributing only for biodiversity conservation, but also for behavioral changes in terms of habits, attitudes and values ​​towards the environment.