📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Aula de EducaciEn Ambiental (Center for environmental education) is an educational resource of the Department of Education and Citizen Participation in Pozuelo de AlarcEn, which offers, free of charge, a wide range of activities related to sustainability, citizen engagement and natural environment, as well as the acquisition of competencies. This center will house the volunteer workcamp, whose objective is to favor the settlement of a small bird of prey, the lesser kestrel. This species is classified as vulnerable in the regional catalog of endangered species, as their populations have followed a widespread regression since the 70 s and late 90 s. For this reason, the main objective is building a multipurpose equipment, to help the stay and subsequent release in the nature (hacking) of a colony of kestrels, in an area with all the required resources for their feeding on invertebrates and small reptiles
💼 What the programme involves
Hack box construction. The hack box is a cabin where birds molt. This term is also used to name the place where birds sleep or breed. Other elements to be built for the molt are perches (for bird resting), benches such as a wooden cylinder, and a birdbath, which can be a container for birds to bathe and drink water on hot days. Ecoaccessibility actions. The following actions will be performed by the volunteers, with the aim to improve the accessibility to molt, eliminate barriers or obstacles and improve the signaling: Elaboration of wood signage by pyrography to indicate the route to follow. Fill with soil the wooden crossbars at the paths, to prevent falls, and remove tiles or grass on the accesses. Installation of new handrails or extension of those already present. Signposting adapted to people with disabilities, along the Ornithological Path, at the stop points where raised birds can be found, and facilitate the access to rest areas as well as to signage to make easier to read the panels. Facilitate and improve accessibility to bird observatories, similarly as previously exposed for the Ornithological Path. Correct transitions with uneven pavement (by small cement ramps o wooden wedges) as well as parts that stand out or kerbs. COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES: Historic tours in Madrid: visit to El Retiro Park, Madrid de los Austrias (The Madrid of the Habsburgs), the Botanical Garden. Sports activities: cycling route through the Adolfo SuEUrez forest park. Swimming in the public pool in Pozuelo de AlarcEn. Activities in the El Cubo leisure place. Summer cinema in the TorreEn auditorium. Excursion to Segovia.
🏠 Accommodation on site
High school on the bridge of the French. It has double rooms and 4 beds. The school is located in the university city of the Complutense.
📍 About the location
The Environmental Education Classroom offers a wide variety of activities, during school hours, related to sustainability, citizen engagement and the environment, as well as the acquisition of skills. There are many and varied possibilities that the Environmental Education Classroom allows the residents of Pozuelo de AlarcEn. This space, located next to the Somosaguas Forest Park, in the Humera neighborhood, is a green oasis full of original corners that help you understand how you can build a more ecological and sustainable future. Thus, the visitor will find different systems of production of clean energy, with original gardens and ecological orchards, biodepuradoras, samples of production of natural fertilizers or projects for the recycling of waste.
ℹ️ Additional information
Upon getting confirmation of your admission as a participant, please contact the responsible staff Email:
[email protected]