WORKING FOR NATURE
Donor states: Project financed by the Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway Governments through the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area.
The region targeted by this project is located in the perimeter of 2 Natura 2000 sites (SCI „Cefa” and SPA “Cefa Fishery - Rădvani Forest”), as well as the Cefa Natural Park area (recognition in progress), situated on the North-West Developing Region, Bihor County and Cefa Municipality.
The project’s primary purpose is to help the local community to adopt sustainable practices for the conservation of the Cefa Natural Park’s biodiversity, under the management of the specific NGO partners. The intended objectives consists in the education of the local community in an environmentally friendly direction, with the purpose of the foundation of sustainable human-nature coexistence, the conservation of the area’s biodiversity, and the publicizing of the protected area.
The project will be implemented by organizing different activities designed for preparing and selecting the children from the Cefa Region middle schools, and organizing 2 camps. During these camps, the children together with the representatives of the NGO partners will install different types of artificial shelters for the protected species, as well as cultivating a plantation of local tree species in the places in which this trees were cut down, and they will create an aquatic ecosystem at the Cefa Visiting Center grounds, populated with local species of flora and fauna. Also, the children that attended the camps will participate at the end of each day in different courses and seminaries regarding aspects of environmental protection, they will also receive brochures, posters, guides, books, and magazines, concerning the protection of different groups of animals as well as adopting a responsible attitude towards the environment.
The management team
project coordinator: Milca Petrovici
project assistant: Attila Nagy
investment responsable Iulian Boboescu
financial officer: Elisabeta Iuhasz
Partners. his project has a number of 7 partners, each of theme specialized in ecological education activities in general and the protection of a particular group of endangered fauna species: Pro Cefa Association, The association for the protection of birds and nature, “Milvus Group“, The association for the protection of bats from Romania, The Romanian Herpetology Society, Ecochoice Association, Green Project Association, Körös Maros National Park Administration (Hungary).
The implementation of the project will take course in a period of 10 months (16.11.2009-15.09.2010).
The project’s budget is 16.946,49 euros. From this total, the irredeemable solicited sum from the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area (EEA) is 14.950 euros.
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