Percepção ambiental dos projetos de conservação dos quelônios do Tocantins, Brasil.

This study aims to contribute to the study of traditional communities the effectiveness of conservation projects of turtles and their derivatives, in particular the district of Roca coffee settlement in the municipality of Pium-TO. We used questionnaire with open and closed questions favoring the opinion of respondents. It was identified that the residents know the protection projects to turtles, their goals and who execute. Residents agree that the turtles need to be protected but not give up the consumption, should integrate traditional communities as full participants in the process of transformation of society without losing the basic cultural characteristics that compose it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]