ECOTOURISM: an alternative for the conservation of the Atlantic Forest biome in São Paulo state

Abstract

It is known that the preservation of the environment has always been a subject that has permeated human concern, but this concern has increased even more with the recurrent human impacts, as we began to question “What is the real planet's support capacity?”. Environmental education, conservation and sustainability are common terms in our daily lives. Brazil, in turn, is a country with high biodiversity and possesses many environments of natural beauty, which are the focus of visitation. In this context, we verified how the ecotourism can be an important alternative for the conservation of the most threatened and impacted biome of Brazil, the Atlantic Forest. The research developed had qualitative and bibliographic approaches, focusing the state of São Paulo. We verified that ecotourism is an important tool for the conservation of the Atlantic Forest biome, as well as an important activity for socioeconomic development in several regions of the state of São Paulo.