вторник, 03 ноября 2015 year

The young naturalist club of Feldman Ecopark will become an official out-of-school establishment.

The young naturalist club of the Regional Landscape Park Feldman Ecopark will receive the status of an official out-of-school establishment. Such decision was approved by participants of the three-day’ workshop for heads of regional ecological and naturalist centers of Ukraine which took place in Kharkiv on 29, 30 and 31 October. A corresponding appeal is planned to be submitted to the Ministry of Education and Culture of Ukraine.

During a visit to the Regional Landscape Park the workshop participants had the opportunity to learn in detail about all educational projects by Feldman Ecopark. The guests highly appreciated the level of the project implementation saying it is a European-class project with most part of classes given to research practice.

‘What is an informal out-of-school institution? It is when conscientious people who love nature and ecology come to create ecoparks, and this project founded by Oleksandr Feldman is one of the best and most effective educational and methodological institutions both in Ukraine and in the world,’ remarked Vladimir Verbitsky, director of the National Ecological and Naturalist Center at the Ministry of Education and Culture.

The workshop participants could also see performances by the Theater of Children and Animals and the work of the Horse Complex where classes are given in gentle horse training, vaulting, horse-riding and unique theatrical performances involving horses are created.

In their turn, the young naturalists of Feldman Ecopark shared their experiences in care and rehabilitation of wild and domestic animals, told about annual research expeditions to various places in Ukraine and about their victories at all-Ukrainian competitions.

It should be noted that within the framework of the workshop an agreement was achieved on admission of young naturalists from all over Ukraine to additional shifts of the children’s camp at Feldman Ecopark.