31/12/2020
Action E1.1:Website was updated in December. The update is expected until the end of the project. As soon as all the deliverables are available, they will be uploaded.
Video: the complete video has been released, as well as the two video clips, and a photo album has been produced. The production of the English version and two video clips on the works and on the target species was also realized with an additional assignment.
Action E1.2: The signs indicating the path to the Geraci have been installed. The works planned in Bernate for the extension of the didactic path have practically been completed. The main works have been completed and a reorganization of the site remains to be carried out. The CRE will be issued in January (first half).
Action E1.3: Butterfly: the 2020 edition of the course has been suspended, it will be organized in spring 2021. The monitoring and updating activity for the preparation of the Atlas was carried out until October and will resume in the spring to recover the months in which he was suspended due to COVID-19.
Environmental education: activities are resumed with schools, albeit online and or through video.
12/23/2019
Action E1.1: in 2019 the return of the sturgeon to the Adriatic Sea was announced with a specimen released in the Ticino river and thanks to the LIFE project. Press releases total around 50 articles from November 2016 to October 2019.
Action E1.2: the objective of this action is to improve the accessibility of the sites and increase their use to make the visitor understand the importance of biodiversity. In May 2019 natural passages were made and information boards will be posted by March 2020.
Action E1.3: the course of recognition of butterflies in its third year registered the participation of 40 people. Didactic activities with schools continue.
09/30/2019
Action E1.1: the website has been changed as per the agreements made in the last monitoring visit, other improvements are underway to make it more usable. The updating of the Facebook page continues.
Action E1.3: The access mask for entering butterfly signaling data has been published on the project website.
Action E1.4: the new assignments for the realization of the Environmental Education activities foreseen for the new school year have started, the new booking calendar will soon be prepared.
Filming for the project video is underway. The first video clip was produced and published on the project website.
11/30/2018
The project website is online www.lifeticinobiosource.it. from the end of June 2017. Since January 2018 the site has been updated directly by the Project Manager, who has implemented the communication with the opening on social networks (FACEBOOK) of a well-attended project page, in which the states are reported of progress of the same.
Filming for the making of the documentary is underway, field operations have already started since spring 2018. The project and the screenplay of the movie proposal presented by the winner of the call, aims, in particular, to make a documentary that is not extremely technical, but focused on an extremely simple storytelling that winds through various stories attributable to various characters, all held together by a single design link.
Newsletter: Not foreseen by the Project, the Steering Committee has decided to produce, on a quarterly basis, a newsletter which reports on the progress of the Project. To date, no. 5 newsletters.
Course on butterflies
During the workshop held on 10 March 2018, 15 new volunteers were “activated”, many following the training received from the 2017 recognition course, who voluntarily offered their willingness to take charge of conducting the censuses in at least 1 unit of survey (ur) for a total of 20 ur assigned (out of 33 overall in the project area).
The training course on the observation and recognition of butterflies achieved excellent participation (52 registrations) and an average number of presences more than satisfactory. The structure of the course, including the number of lessons (12) and field meetings / workshops (2), remained unchanged compared to 2017. Classroom location was the “ex Austro-Hungarian Customs” Park Center in Tornavento “in province of Varese. The interest, participation and in some cases even the basic preparation of the students are a good omen in view of the 2019 field season.
The number of students enrolled in the course recorded an increase of 7% compared to the previous year, having risen from 45 to 52. The number of volunteers active on the field was significant, with an increase of 50% (from 5 to 15). The activation of voluntary detectors (moreover in a more than discrete number) suitably prepared is to be considered an important goal achieved.
The adhesions to the environmental education project were higher than expected and compared to the 40 expected classes, there were 232 classes and 25 schools and more than 5400 children participating.
The project brochure, intended as a tool and didactic support, has already been conceived and created and distributed to about 2/3 of the schools. The high number of schools and young people led to the exhaustion of the booklet which must therefore be reprinted for the remainder.
03/19/2018
The action was launched in November 2016 and all the actions envisaged by the project have found their realization or their start. In June 2017 a new website dedicated to the project was studied and created.
The site has been online since July 2017 and over the months it has been completed and implemented with other actions aimed at social networks (creation of a newsletter and a Facebook profile).
As for the activity with primary schools, we proceeded within the set times and in December 2017 a brochure was created which will serve as a useful compendium for all the educational activities planned for the school years 2018/2019 and 2019/2020. The booklet has already been sent to all the mayors and to many school leaders and the same (in PDF format) can also be downloaded from the website in the “Schools” section. Many memberships that have already been gathered and which aim to involve the whole territory of the Park, from Sesto Calende to Pavia. In March 2018, we also proceeded to lay the foundations that aim to create a documentary capable of illustrating the project actions, this, by hiring, after specific procedures, an expert filmmaker from the Park and LIFE Projects.
