The International Day for Biodiversity will be celebrated on Friday by the Lagoa Ecoteca (Environmental Awareness Raising Centre) in an initiative supported by the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and the Sea.
In the context of this event, the Ecoteca will make available at the Lagoa Secondary School the photographic exhibition “Ilhas Selvagens 30o 08’ N 15o 54’ W” (Wild Islands 30o 08’ N 15o 54’ W) by Paulo Henrique Silva, opening on Friday and being on display for a week.
The exhibition is the subsequent result of a solitary and prolonged stay of its author on those Inlands for the observation and recording of the fauna and flora of a rich territory in the context of the Macaronesia Natural Heritage.
According to Paulo Henrique Silva, the work “is an important tool for the knowledge, the environmental promotion and the monitoring of terrestrial wildlife that depends on the oceans, being an alert for the protection and monitoring of places like this.”
To celebrate the event, the Lagoa Ecoteca, which is integrated in the Regional Network of Azores Ecotecas and in the Volcanological and Geothermal Observatory of the Azores, will also organise a pedestrian walk to the hydrographic basin of Furnas Crater Lake for a junior high school class.
With this pedestrian walk, the Lagoa Ecoteca intends to disseminate the biodiversity and geodiversity, as well as to raise the public’s awareness to the conscientious and ecologic use of these natural resources.