A day in the park project has a new edition on July 23 – 07/13/2023 – É Logo Ali
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On the 23rd of July, a Sunday, the event “A Day in the Park” will be held in at least 300 conservation units across the country, idealized by Rede Pró UC, created in 2018 as a way to value the units through the visitation and activities that aim to integrate communities to these spaces.
This year, the theme of the event will be “It’s time to take care of our home”, which guides care, volunteering, sustainable tourism and the benefits of contact with nature, in its various biomes, for physical and mental health.
“Getting to know a Conservation Unit, such as parks, reserves, refuges, is an experience that lasts a lifetime”, says biologist Angela Kuczach, 43, executive director of Rede Pró UC and project coordinator. “The feeling you get is one of renewed strength, and it lasts for a long time,” she adds.
Among the activities most often offered by units already registered (the complete list can be found on the action’s Instagram, @umdianoparqueoficial or on the project’s website), there are trails, hiking, bird watching and cycling. But you can also find places where you can watch the sunrise or sunset, bathe in waterfalls, slackline practitioners, abseiling, environmental education lectures, movies, diving, cleaning efforts, among other activities.
If last year the project took more than 100,000 people of all ages to different units, the trend is that, as the actions are publicized, more visitors look for the closest places. And with one detail: if there is no activity planned at the nearest UC, the visitor can create his own action, and publish the photo with the hashtag #UmDiaNoParque2023.
Um Dia No Parque is financed internally by the institutions of the Coalizão Pró UCs, formed by Rede Pró UC; WWF-Brasil, Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica, Instituto Semeia, Fundação Grupo Boticário, Imazon (Institute of Man and Environment in the Amazon), IPÊ (Institute of Ecological Research), Funbio (Brazilian Fund for Biodiversity), TNC Brasil, Imaflora and Conservation International.
This union of forces makes it possible to cover biomes as diverse as the cerrado, the Atlantic Forest and the Amazon. “It’s a day of celebration”, defines Marina Kluppel, general coordinator of Public Use and Environmental Services at ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute). “The project not only has our support, it is our guest, because it helps society to realize the relevance of our units for nature conservation and everyone’s quality of life”, she says.
“The objective is to show the importance of the CUs, so that people know, appropriate and protect these areas that, even close by, are not always recognized”, adds Mariana Napolitano, Conservation Manager at WWF-Brasil (World Wide Fund for Nature ).
Mariana Haddad, Project coordinator at Instituto Semeia agrees with them, considering that “we still see a series of challenges to strengthen visitation in parks, so showing people that these spaces exist and can and should be visited and protected by them is a first step towards making them more inviting places for all people”.
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