Project title:
“Promotion of environmental education by Youth participation in monitoring forest biodiversity of the reserve Plaiul Fagului”

Project coordinator:
Women’s Association for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development

Project’s partners:
Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation
Agency Moldsilva
Natural Reserve “Plaiul Fagului”
Ecological Movement of Moldova
Magazine “Natura”

Project lenght:
August 2013 – July 2014 (12 months)

Funders:
Estonian Ministry of Foreing Affairs
National Ecological Fund

Project goal:
The project goal is oriented towards a better understanding of the nature and promoting best techniques for conserving biodiversity.

Project objectives:
1. Conducting biodiversity monitoring campaigns, by  involving youth from neighboring villages of reserve “Plaiul Fagului”; Create a Communication Network between schools of adjacent localities of reserve “Plaiul Fagului”; Organizing environmental clubs in these schools;
2. Increasing informational and educational awareness of the locals and youth, toward implementation of environmental objectives in order to protect nature and sustainable development having as a Model – Natural Reserve “Plaiul Fagului”;
3. Publishing of educational and instructive: achieving illustrated booklet containing species of plants and animals in the Reserve “Plaiul Fagului” in various stages of endangerment;
4. Develop a best practice guide on Participatory Biodiversity Inventory and Monitoring;
5. Promoting the value of Moldova’s natural monuments through the media, to European and global entries circuit values.

Project activities: