The mayor of the Environment, Isabel Maria Torrente, participated this morning in the IES Europe in placing nest boxes for swifts students basic FP Agro-Gardening and floral compositions as well as occupational classroom profile Garden of institute have done within a project, the result of the collaboration agreement signed between the city of Eagle and the aforementioned institute for development programs biodiversity conservation in the municipality.
The activity began with an explanatory talk by Sebastian Ramirez, an official of the Department of Environment, which coordinates the project.
Then it was discovered in the corridor of the institute a panel full color with extensive information on the swift (characteristics, biology data, problems of conservation and survival, etc.) as well as the importance of effective control exercised over the insects in an urban environment.
Then the Department of Environment distributed to the students present a handmade "kit" to build boxes / nest, made of wood and with dimensions of 40x30cm and 20cm high, with an elongated opening 12x6cm and once assembled have It has been placed about five meters high under the eaves aquiline institute.
The project, designed and funded entirely by the Department of Environment of the City of Eagle, have developed some thirty students of basic FP Agro-Gardening and floral compositions as well as the Occupational Classroom profile Gardening IES "Europe ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas