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The creation of the Fundação Brasileira para a Conservação da Natureza

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This study within the field of environmental history explores the scenario amid which the Fundação Brasileira para a Conservação da Natureza (Brazilian Foundation for Nature Conservation) was founded between 1958 and 1966; this important Brazilian non-governmental organization headquartered in Rio de Janeiro worked at the local, national, and international levels. Primary documentary sources were utilized, along with research of the related literature. The conclusions demonstrate the importance of non-governmental organizations predating this foundation, and the influence of conservationists on its establishment and current work.

Source: História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos

DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702024000100019en

Authors: Juliana da Costa Gomes de Souza, José Luiz de Andrade Franco, José Augusto Drummond

Institution: Universidade de Brasília

Language: English

Topic: American Environmental and Regional History

Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4397008759

FWCI: 0.421

Cites: 16

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10