📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
- Prevention of forest and populations against fire;- Promotion of sustainability, environmental awareness, and biodiversity protection;- Promotion of intercultural relationships, good environmental practices, and citizenship;- Promotion of specific skills in the field of environmental management, nature protection and biodiversity.Participants will perform tasks but also learn about nature conservation and engage in conservation-training activities in a forest near Lustosa (Lousada) which needs intervention in order to make it more resilient and fire-prepared. This forest also has an important role in protecting Lustosa village and Lousada against fires, since it has water and may also function as an ecological corridor/shelter for fauna.
💼 What the programme involves
- Protection of the forests surrounding the village of Lustosa and Lousada (northern Portugal) against forest fires;- Control of pyrophyte alien invasive species;- Management of fuelwood;- Construction of a water point for irrigation / control of possible fires;- Rehabilitation of a degraded system for water transportation;- Restoration of a small riparian forest;- Improvement of local fauna, flora, and landscape;- Encouragement of international exchange and exchange of experience;- Presentation and discussion of the natural and social reality of the regions of origin of the participants;- Promotion of environmentally and socially responsible attitudes and values;- Development of action-training actions focused on individual and collective learning.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Participants will sleep in Lousada Sportsaeuro Center, in shared bedrooms (4, 5 or 9 beds), where they have hot water showers. Pictures and description of the Sports Center at http://www.cm-lousada.pt/pt/residenciaParticipants have to bring their own towels and hygiene products, but the beds have sheets and blankets. The organization will provide breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Lunches and dinners are prepared/cooked by the municipalityaeuros staff and served at the sportsaeuro center canteen, but some lunches will be served in the field (sandwiches, fruits, etc.). Thereaeuros vegetarian option.
📍 About the location
http://www.cm-lousada.pt/pt/descobrir; http://www.cm-lousada.pt/pt/parques-e-jardins
⚠️ Requirements
- High sense of citizenship and environmental protection.- Will to work for nature protection and improvement.- Will to learn and share nature protection techniques and good practice.- Language skills (English preferable, but also Portuguese and Spanish).- Always be punctual.- Always respect othersaeuro opinions.