📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our Legambiente local group is made up of young and dynamic people, mostly under 30. Our main activity is the management of a hostel; moreover, we carry on a campaign against food waste and for the correct waste management. Take a look at https://it-it.facebook.com/legambiente.lecco for details and on our website www.legambientelecco.it/en/
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: Volunteers will retrieve garbage stuck in that area of the lake on a small boat, and also along the road that goes through the park. Besides that, they will be involved in painting the benches and signs, and in mowing of weeds along pathways. 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. Moreover, during the camp, there will be the possibility to take a tour of the reserve with an environmental guide, who will explain to the volunteers how the wildlife is very important for the reserve.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in a beautiful house owned by the park. The dormitory will be used by both men and women. In the house, they will find a kitchen, bathrooms, a big shared living room.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: Pian di Spagna is located where Valchiavenna meets Valtellina, creating the basin of Lake Como. Here a large flat wetland extends in a majestic and spectacular natural theatre of ornithological value, under the first spurs of the Alps Lepontine and Retiche. Pian di Spagna is located exactly on a trajectory of migrating birds which find shelter and food there, among the thick marsh vegetation, before and after the strenuous crossing of the Alps.
TERMINAL: Nearest airports: Orio al Serio, Bergamo or Milano Malpensa, Milano. Nearest train station: Colico
⚠️ Requirements
It is essential that the volunteers have adaptability and the will to work in a group is mandatory. The ability to RIDE A BICYCLE is also required since volunteers may be asked to bike through the park. A project related motivation letter is required and if necessary a skype interview. Please send ML with application!