Activity - Preparation and implementation of training and educational programs

There will be training and educational programs prepared utilizing the knowledge learned. After creating the basic educational material for the training of TFE staff, which will be implemented in early 2015, this material will be after consultation with experts and completion used as a basis for documents in the Lower Morava BR. Outline of the basic material shall be as follows: Legislation relating to this issue (EU and Czech Republic) Red List of Threatened Species of the area, selected species - characteristics for field recognition, selected species - practical protection in a given territory.

The Lower Morava BR will serve as a pilot area. There will be offered several educational programs. Each will focus on a different target group one of the training programs will focus on forest workers. The aim will be to familiarize them with endangered species, with the locations of their occurrence and the principle of protection in connection with forest management. For staff of Zidlochovice Forest Enterprise, who manage the forests in the Lower Morava BR, will be held one seminar.

Materials for university students will introduce the research methodologies, endangered species and common guidelines for their protection. Two workshops will be organized for this target group.

For government authorities in the field of nature and landscape protection will be held an educational program aimed at presentation of endangered species, their list and a list of their habitats. For this target group will be held one seminar. The seminar will also discuss the possibilities of obtaining funds for special management of these locations.

Another target group will be local government officials. The educational program will focus on introduction of endangered species, outlining sites with their presence and explanation of basic protection principles in connection with the development of communities. There will be three seminars organized for this target group.

The last target group will be broad public. There will be five seminars organized for this audience, each will focus on a different group of endangered species (plants, entomofauna, avifauna, amphibians, fish).

At each seminar, participants will be provided with appropriate educational program in electronic version.

For kindergarten children there will be a memory game created that will highlight selected endangered species. Pexeso - the memory card game - will consist of 36 pairs of color images. Memory game will be released in 1000 copies.

Another educational material will be a map of protected areas and species in the Lower Morava BR. It will be a general-geographical map at a scale of 1: 100 000 with the boundary of the biosphere reserve, with classical information and graphics layers. Rear side of the map will contain information about individual nature protection institutes, data publication and basic information about the conventions under which they were declared. At the same time, the back side of the map will be used for basic information about the most endangered species within the BR.