Description
We need terms like sustainable development and natural heritage to become known and respected values. In our project, we'd like to combine the practical biodiversity support with education and creation of positive relationships between the public and nature. The main goal is to protect or even increase biodiversity in the abandoned Hády quarry and to educate our target groups. More than a thousand people (children and adults),including those who are socially handicapped, will take part in our project. They will take part in activities like regenerating an old orchard or protecting nature. They will get a field experience nature and build a closer relationship with it. New created teaching methods will remain at disposal. Rezekvítek and it's partner Land trust Hády have the same focus and they cooperate on a long term basis. Rezekvítek has experience with long term programs for youth and Land trust has suitable facilities at disposal. In the project, they both will share their know-how.
Summary of project results
The main objective of the project was to help the nature in Hady quarry, consequently with environmental education and public education. We wanted to employ various groups including children from kindergartens, primary schools and people who suffer from autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We aimed to fulfill the project objectives through four key activities. A yearlong educational project for kindergarten children was created and implemented. Detailed methodology for its implementation was created according to our experience and feedback from children and teachers involved. Further we created a 3-part educational course focused on reclamation. 10 primary schools attended and enjoyed this course. In this course educational activities were organized and their participants helped with a maintenance of an area about 70,500 m² in “Hady” quarry. Public workshops called “Animals In a New Environment” was the instrument of the third project activity involving both - primary school students and public. This workshop focused on and described specific animal and botanical residents of “Hady” and of its surroundings. For people with autism a leisure time club was founded through the fourth project activity focusing on environmental education. Specific activities were created and maintained in cooperation with Apla - NGO specialized in work with autistic people. It was new experience for both subjects - project promoter, particularly for project partner (the Hady Land trust) as well as Apla, while such cooperation on such field combining social and environmental work was for them unique. In the period from March 2015 till February 2016, we organized 12 original appointments matching the needs of people with in the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project activities brought the participant information about the original nature of quarry and about reclamations and subsequently offered them possibility to get involved. Each participant could help with his/her own strength and learn directly in-site about usefulness of nature protection. Their direct care about valuable landscape encouraged their relation to nature. For people with ASD brought the project something very new, because nature leisure time activities had been unavailable for them so far.
Summary of bilateral results