📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The "Isola delle Femmine" is a natural reserve established in 1997 by the Sicilian Region and managed by LIPU (Italian league for birds protection) since 1998. This little uninhabited island is located in a strategic place for the migration of a specific species of bird called Gabbiano reale (Larus michahellis), this area allows them to rest from migration and to grow numerically. Due to financial cutting, the reserve suffers from maintenance and the support received along the year is not as much as should be provided. This is the reason why InformaGiovani with LIPU organize together every year workcamps to support the maintenance of the natural reserve and to sensitize the local community towards the place.
💼 What the programme involves
Work will be run in the little uninhabited island in the middle of the sea, therefore, is compulsory to be able to swim!
Volunteers will support natural reserve’s staff in restoration of the flora with planting of new plants (this action is part of over thirty-year plan put in practice by Lipu), maintenance of existing vegetation (watering plants), maintenance of the protected area (re-building stone paths). Cleaning of the protected area (the area is subject to different marine streams that bring waste from the sea). Work will be done mainly in the morning and in case of wind or rain the work will be run on another day. Work can be tiring and hard due to hot temperature and Sicilian sun (hat and sunblock are compulsory).
Workshops on environmental topics can be implemented during afternoons (e.g. marine litter and related-environmental disasters, reduction of plastic and the impact of incorrect waste management on seas, etc.).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation in a camping site few km far from the working place. Volunteers will share tents (2 in total), showers and toilet are available and in sharing inside the camping. Volunteers will be responsible for cooking, grocery shopping, providing water for the group, cleaning dishes and other tasks.
📍 About the location
Isola delle Femmine is an Italian town in North-Western Sicily, in the province of Palermo. It is next to the sea so volunteers can spend their free time at the beach, do water sports, snorkeling, etc... Isola is a coast-town close to Palermo and connected with bus/train. Palermo is a beautiful city where there are many sights and places to spend the free time.
ℹ️ Additional information
Be able to swim is compulsory. Interest in environment issue, protection of sea and coast. ML with proposal for a workshop. Basic accommodation. ESC PROJECT-EU Programme Countries only
