| Leading agency: | Associação de Defesa do Paul de Tornada |
| Area(s) of intervention: | Caldas da Rainha e Óbidos |
| Total budget: | € 7.498 |
| NOPLANETB contribution: | € 7.498 |
| Duration: | 10 months |
| Starting date: | 1st of May 2019 |
| Contacts: | associacaopato@gmail.com |
Summary of the project
The project “Going upstream – Know to Protect” aims to create synergies and promote individual and community habits, which can lead towards conservation improvement of rivers and streams, and subsequently contribute to the mitigation of climate changes. The goal is also to contribute for a better informed and participative civic attitude on freshwater ecosystem values and services, in order to encourage discussion about the values associated with sustainable development through different actions, such as guided field trips adapted to schools’ study plans and age groups of the participants; ichthyofauna and herpetofauna monitoring and characterization activities with an environmental education component; exotic species identification; freshwater systems restoration by planting autochthonous species; workshops and environmental volunteering. This project also aims for the awareness towards the importance of preserving natural resources, focusing on freshwater ecosystems, by creating opportunities that allow the reconciliation of preservation, environmental protection, and dissemination of knowledge required for sustainable development of the territory.
Beneficiaries
- 200 in the Educational Community – Preschool and Primary Education in the municipalities of Caldas da Rainha and Óbidos
- 15 municipal technicians
- 20 Queen D. Leonor Special Education Center
- 3.000 General Public
- 60 teachers from all disciplinary groups
- 40 university students
Overall achievements
The project aimed to create synergies and promote individual and community habits, which could lead towards conservation improvement of rivers and streams.
Many activities were carried out with the scholar community and the general public, such as guided field trips adapted to the study plans and age groups of the participants; monitoring and characterization activities of ichthyofauna and herpetofauna with an environmental education component; exotic species identification; workshops and environmental volunteering. Also was included in the area a new game mode called Munzee, which can reach more players. The project reached 4.798 students, teachers and educators, municipal experts, etc.