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World Climate Change Day

Today (May 15) we celebrate World Climate Change Day. Climate change is one of the greatest threats to life on our planet. The use of coal, oil, gas, intensive agriculture, deforestation, and many other human activities increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the air. This raises the Earth's temperature, leading to melting polar ice, rising ocean levels, flooding of highly populated lowlands, and the extinction of hundreds of thousands of species that regulate the...

May - Biodiversity Month

May - the greenest month of the year has been declared the month of biodiversity. But what is biodiversity and what does it give us? Biodiversity - the diversity of life on earth - makes our planet habitable and beautiful. Many of us turn to the natural environment for pleasure, inspiration, or entertainment. We are also dependent on it for food, energy, raw materials, air, and water - the elements that allow life to exist as we know it and drive our economies. Despite its...

We celebrate the Earth Day with the children from the reading club "Fairytale World"

The famous scientist Einstein said: "If bees disappear, humanity can survive only 4 years before disappearing." This requires each of us, whether a beekeeper or not - to try to help them survive. This was exactly our focus on today's Earth Day, together with the participants in the Reading Club "Fairytale World" at the library of Community center "Hristo Botev" in the town of Rila. We discussed with a curious third, fourth and fifth graders the topic "How to save the...

Little friends of nature from kindergarten "Alen Mak", Kocherinovo learned about the forest

Today, experts from the Directorate of the Rila Monastery Nature Park visited the Alen Mak Kindergarten in the town of Kocherinovo, where they introduced the children to the types of trees in the nature park and the importance of the forest. The little nature lovers learned who lives in the forest, why the forest is healthy, and why it is necessary to protect it. The children from the group "Mickey Mouse" and the group "Sun" actively participated in the educational games...