Children from primary schools Grad and Kuzma visited centre Aqualutra

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Created on Wednesday, 04 July 2012 06:21

Otter educational and information centre in Križevci recieves more and more visits from pupils of primary schools from Goričko. This delights us since one of the most important roles of the centre is informal education of pupils of primary schools from municipalities in region Prekmurje. These schools are remote from urban areas and consequently have less possibilities for visiting different educational institutions. To these children we want to show nature values and quality of life in their vicinity. Often it proves that children are not familiar with their vicinity and are therefore not aware of its nature values, which can be protected the most by locals.

Children of higher grades of primary schools Grand and Kuzma are spending last June days at first nature-sport summer camp 2012. In this way also Otter centre became part of the project "Popestrimo šolo" ("Let's diversify school"). On 29th June - Danube Day we got a visit of 9 children and 4 companions. We spent three hours talking about importance of water and water environment. We got familiar with freshwater animals and their dependance on our water treatment. We tried to find out how to treat water more responsibly, how to influence on drivers to be more aware of nimals on the road, in short we were "playing nature conservancy". Summer heat did not stop us from visiting nearby stream Mala Krka, where we looked for water and riparian animals. We were amazed by biodiversity although the level of water was very low. Water is held back in hollows under tree roots and in pools, which represents a refuge from heat from stream inhabitants.