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19/05/2021 |
Biodiversity Day in the KindergartenToday, experts from the Rila Monastery Nature Park visited kindergarten "Alen Mak" in Kocherinovo, where they introduced to the young nature lovers the importance of biological diversity and how important it is for people. With entertaining and educational games the children from the group "Mickey Mouse" and "Sun" from the town of Kocherinovo, as well as the children from the group "Joy" from the village of Barakovo (branch of kindergarden "Alen Mak" - Kocherinovo) learned...
17/05/2021 |
Fritillaria gussichiae in Rila Monastery Nature ParkWalking along the mountain paths of the Rila Monastery Nature Park, it is possible to see a beautiful flower that looks very much like a tulip, but it is not a tulip. This is a Fritillaria gussichiae. The flowers of the Fritillaria gussichiae are very similar to the tulip, but they hang down. It is one of the earliest blooming beautiful forest flowers. Spring Easter, forest pine, cornflower, and others also bloom with it. In Bulgaria, it is also found in the Struma Valley,...
15/05/2021 |
World Climate Change DayToday (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...
13/05/2021 |
May - Biodiversity MonthMay - 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...