Nacional Institute of Science and Technology of the Hymenoptera Parasitoids from Brazilian Southeast Region

The Institute will be a center for research and management of biodiversity in Southeast Brazil, designed to support efforts to improve the knowledge on Brazilian biological diversity and to promote their sustainability. The institute will be developed under the premise that the best way to conserve biodiversity is studying its diverse aspects and the opportunities it offers to improve our life quality.

It will be an organization that involves universities, private companies and other national and international research institutes.Its work will be mainly developed in the following areas of action:

Inventories and environmental monitoring

Generate information on the diversity of parasitoid Hymenoptera species of forest and savannah (“Cerrado”) ecosystems and agroecosystems.

Conservation

Integration of the information generated by the Institute for decision-making processes with the purpose of protection and sustainable utilization of the biodiversity by public and private sectors.

Communication and Education

Include information and knowledge of the biodiversity in different segments of the community, planning to create a greater awareness about its value. These activities will be affected by activities of extension in order to strengthen the environmental component of actions and decisions of the population.

Bioinformatics

Develop and apply tools of information technology to support the process of generation, administration, analysis and dissemination of data on biodiversity. The information for each specimen of the inventory of biodiversity will be inserted into a database, which would be available in a web page.

Bioprospection

In order to promote the sustainable use and commercial application of biodiversity resources, through the establishment of research groups to study chemicals and genes present in the studied organisms that can be used by industry and agriculture sector.