Ciencia Ciudadana para fortalecer, mediante cooperación internacional, el conocimiento y conservación de la biodiversidad en la Parroquia de Pintag Distrito Metropolitano de Quito

Abstract

Abstract: Citizen science is a practice that is gradually developing and strengthening; this way of promoting new scientific knowledge through small collective, participatory and open research projects, involves different actors, who are generally not part of academia. . Decentralized Autonomous Governments and educational institutions are the perfect representatives to promote and link citizen science as part of their programs and actions in environmental education. However, the lack of resources and prioritizing other needs have relegated these issues to the background. Due to the environmental problems that we face worldwide, international cooperation agencies and organizations are incorporating into their support programs the reinforcement of participatory environmental education from the territory, that is, at the local level; with the purpose of encouraging sectional authorities the commitment to care for the environment.