Os desafios da educação ambiental na República Democrática do Congo

Abstract

Like many countries around the world, the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the countries that suffers from serious environmental problems due to human activities; almost twenty percent (20%) of its population lives and is concentrated in the capital, this fact generates an over exploitation of natural resources and causes several negative impacts such as pollution in ecosystems. It is in this perspective that we consider environmental education as a response to contemporary environmental and social issues. Thus, the present study will have as its main objective to find out if the Democratic Republic of Congo has engaged in environmental education, and in a specific way to identify the strategies adopted to enhance this environmental education and identify the advances in environmental education. In pursuit of the proposed objectives, the study was developed from the methodologies of bibliographic, exploratory and documental studies; these methods helped to form concepts and definitions through authors, books and articles, as well as legal documents. From the data collected, it was possible to identify that the country does not have a national policy on environmental education, nor clear and well-defined strategies, in addition to a weakness in terms of financing for investments in this sector; and the concept of environmental education in the Congolese public is little known. This scenario leads us to conclude that the federal and state governments need to pay more attention to their main responsibilities. That is, without an accessible strategy on the subject of environmental education, there will be no possibility of achieving the desired sustainable development.