THE EARTH DAY CAmPAIgN APRIL 22 2007

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Billion Tree Campaign also
in the Healthy Cities
The Earth Day Celebrations offer an
opportunity for seeing nature and country
The students and teachers of Stavbařů Grammar School of Ústí nad
Labem jointly undertook to plant in the course of April up to 2000
pines and beech trees in the cadastral area of Povrly municipality.
The Healthy City thus joined the international campaign called Plant
for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign that sets the task of planting one
billion trees over the whole world in the course of 2007. Within the
framework of this campaign there were ten trees planted in areas of
kindergartens and basic schools and in public places of the Healthy
City District of Praha Libuš and Písnice. There have also been events
dedicated to cleaning and improvement of the surroundings, such
as cleaning of Zátoňská Street surroundings and Písnický Stream,
organised by the local horse-riding club. Volunteers of the Healthy
City of Kromeříž, among whose there also present the Municipal
House representatives, cleaned the Barbořina suburban forest and
the whole event was concluded by the traditional wells opening in
Divokách u Zdounek. Wells and forest were also cleaned in the course
of the Earth Day celebrations in the Healthy City of Strakonice. The
cleaning and opening of Podsrpenská Well, whose patronage has been
taken over by the children of Povážská basic school of Strakonice,
has been also attended by inhabitants of the Healthy Municipality of
In the castle park of the Healthy City of Jilemnice there were the Earth
Day celebrations prepared by workers of the local branch of Consulting
Centre for the Country. The event was visited by 500 pupils and students
of basic and high schools. Owing to external lecturers the participants
could gain in knowledge about spring vegetation, birds and their
voices or about the system of Krkonošský National Park functioning. In
the Healthy City of Vsetín the ALCEDO Association organised the Earth
Day in Panská Garden, where the visitors were welcomed by knowledge
competitions based on identification of trees, birds according to their
silhouettes or identification of footmarks or archaeology. The Earth
Day in the Healthy City of Orlová was realised in the sign of getting
to know the native Americans’ life and their relationship to nature. For
children there were prepared examples of moulded animal footmarks,
Planting of trees belongs among the traditional activities within the Earth Day
celebrations. It has not been any different in the Healthy Mozaika Kindergarten
of Hodonín.
Strážky. Cleaning of Rohová nature reserve has been carried out by
the environmental department workers of Municipal House of the
Healthy City of Moravská Třebová in collaboration with local branch
of Czech Society for Natural Preservation. Approximately 50 children,
pupils and students of Special School then planted suitable wood
plants under expert supervision gardener, along Svitavská Street.
The event took place within the framework of continuous Moravská
Třebová activity called Greening the City Outskirts. The Healthy City
of Chrudim with a support from the part of Partnership Foundation
in the programme called Tree of Life and with the general partner of
the programme, Skanska company, prepared an event for city citizens
called “Regeneration of recreational Areas in Novoměstská Street”.
At the planning meeting of April 16 th the programme was introduced
to public, announcement of public enquiry results took place followed
by the city tour and presentation of created designs. In Chrudim there
will be new recreational area “Under the Trees” created on the basis
of observations and designs. This activity is also a part of the Billion
Tree global campaign that has been also supported by children of local
basic school and kindergarten in Bolatice, who planted 300 trees.
Learning about nature directly in the nature belongs among the best practices
of education of the youngest generation in Chrudim but not only there.
a fold with live horses or examples plant processing for preparation
of tasty native Americans’ foods. In the educational area of SEVER
Ecological Education Centre of the Healthy City of Litoměřice there
was an entertainment afternoon for kindergarten children called “Join
Us Seeing Animals”. Precisely 399 children who visited the event found
out in an entertaining way some more about animals in water, on shore
and in the air, observed small water animals through the microscope
and learned how to identify animal footprints. In the kindergartens
they planted the brought sunflower seeds. In the Healthy City of Velké
Meziříčí they celebrated the Earth Day on the waves of nature. In
addition to the walk through spring nature of Balinské Valley there were
prepared activities that familiarised the participants with water world.
Games, quizzes and experiments with water were complemented by
identification of small water animals. The event has been organised
by the Ostrůvek Ecological Education Centre, detached workplace of
Chaloupky o.p.s. educational facility.
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