📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente local group: Legambiente Lecco is made up of young and dinamic people, mostly under 30. The president himself is under 30 as well. The main activity of this Legambiente group is the management of an hostel; moreover, it has campaigned against food waste and for the correct waste management. Take a look at https://it-it.facebook.com/legambiente.lecco for details.
💼 What the programme involves
Project summary: Pian di Spagna is a really interesting rural area placed in the northern part of the Como lake.
It is very rich in biodiversity that obviously needs to be taken care of. Legambiente has always been involved in taking care and maintaining this natural area. Volunteers will help Legambiente local group to conserve and endorse this breathtaking natural habitat.
Project: Pian di Spagna is a rural area in which there is a problem with garbage brought up by the river. It is a reservation in which some garbage tends to be brought up by the wind and it is often problematic to reach all the waste by foot. Therefore, volunteers will be given the task of retrieving all the waste stuck in that area, by boat and also partly by foot. Since it is a very important area also environmentally speaking, the more people are willing to help us take care of it, the better. Anyone represent a precious help for this magnificent natural area in the North of Italy.
Work: Volunteers will retrieve garbage stuck in that area of the lake on a small boat, and also beside the road that goes through the park. Beside that, they will have to paint the benches and signs, and mow in the area of pathways. These tasks will be fundamental to obtain a cleaner and even more beautiful natural habitat, which is what we expect from these interventions.
Study part: At the beginning of the camp there will be a meeting in order to show the volunteers the details regarding their work in the park.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation and food: The volunteers will be hosted in a house owned by the park. The dormitory will be used by both men and women, without gender separation. In the house, they will find a kitchen, bathrooms, a big shared room where they can gather, a green area outside with tables. Wi-fi access is not provided, in order to have it volunteers have to go to the park offices that are a few kilometres far. Volunteers will be taking turns cleaning all the rooms they will have access to and also cooking for all the group members.
📍 About the location
Location and leisure: This is a very important oasis located where Valchiavenna meets Valtellina, creating the basin of Lake Como. Here arises a large flat wetland, in a majestic and spectacular natural theater of crucial ornithological value, under the first spurs of the Alps Lepontine and Retiche. The Pian di Spagna is located exactly on a trajectory of migrating birds which find shelter and food there, among the thick marsh vegetation, just before and after the strenuous crossing of the Alps. In addition to birds (among which the swallow is the main host), also small and large mammals, such as foxes, badgers and deer, inhabit the reserve, which needs to be protected from the threat of some thoughtless agricultural interventions and the troublesome and dirty legacy of abandoned industrial complexes. (more info: http://www.piandispagna.it/)
⚠️ Requirements
Specific Requirements: The ability to ride a bicycle is required. A project-related motivation letter is required and if necessary a skype interview.
Language: English will be the official language in the camp, therefore it is required a basic knowledge of it.
Terminal: nearest airports: Orio al serio, Milano Malpensa nearest train station: Colico train station