Rivers do not understand languages, nor does nature understand borders. Under this premise, schoolchildren from CEIP do Xurés participated in Lobios in an environmental education day in the framework of the European project between Galicia and Portugal.
Environmental education day with schoolchildren from CEIP do Xurés | La Región
The schoolchildren of CEIP do Xurés changed this Thursday the classrooms for an outdoor class with the Praza Roxa as a stage and the river Lobios as the protagonist of a day of environmental education to learn about the importance of the prevention of watercourses and the water cycle.
The students enjoyed a morning of games with plasticine and paper, experiments, competitions and an in situ visit to the riverbed to supervise its flow and quality, ‘vai moi baixo’, said Álvaro Rodríguez, 9 years old. At his side, his classmates nodded and listed almost in unison their recommendations not to throw rubbish into the river and not to waste water. “We are delighted. The children learned a lot about the water cycle”, highlighted the director, Alberto Pérez.
The ‘Rivers that unite us’ initiative, organised within the POCTEP Risc_Plus project, brought together representatives from the University of Vigo and the Miño-Sil River Basin Authority, as well as partners from the Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente and the University of Porto. “It is very important from an early age to raise awareness of environmental care and such an important resource for us as water and its associated ecosystem. If it is done at this age, it will be forever”, said Carlos Ruiz del Portal del Organismo de Cuenca, who underlined the reinforcement of cooperation with Portugal. ‘Nature does not understand borders’, he said on a day in which the mayoress, Mari Carmen Yáñez, was present, and where they could learn about the action carried out within this project, a station to control and monitor in real time the riverbed. ‘Prevention is very important, to anticipate what could happen’, said Yáñez, highlighting the fact that the population knows the scope of European projects, ‘which go beyond the paper’.
