📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente Varese Onlus is a local group of Legambiente, that, beside giving contributions to main Legambiente national campaigns mind about the environment of the district of Varese since the eighties. Legambiente Varese coordinate 14 local groups of Legambiente volunteers and it's the connection between local, regional and national offices of the association. Thanks to this organization we can carrying out several activities such as the management of natural areas, the organization of work-camps, environmental education addressed to youngest generations and promotion of environmentally friendly lifestyles
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: Volunteers will work mainly in “Villaggio Cagnola”'s area that is a place of great historical and natural importance used by the Park to create a centre for environmental education and nature's preservation. The work will be: footpaths cleaning and maintenance, removing weeds from grassland at the top of the mountains etc
STUDY PART: Part of the time will be dedicated to study the natural characteristic of the Park specially focused on biodiversity and on the protection of water springs.
We'll study the conseguences upon woods of a fire occurred last november.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in a common room with camp-beds and they'll use a camp-kitchen Environmental friendly diet with local products and little meat.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: The natural Park “Campo Dei Fiori” overlooks the hills of the Province of Varese and the Po Plain. In the area there are several interesting natural and historical sites. (www.parcocampodeifiori.it)
The particular geographical location and the geological features favored the presence of a various vegetation, with chestnut tree and beech tree woods, typical fora of the rocky areas, marshy and peaty zones rich in wildlife.
Brinzio is a little village (about 880 inhabitants).
TERMINAL: Milano Malpensa, Varese train station
⚠️ Requirements
We'll use bicycles for moving between camp and working place.
Volunteers need good skills in bicycle riding