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THE LIFE TIB PROJECT MEETS TEACHERS

Thanks to the partnership with “Green School” project

A follow-up meeting on the key issues of LIFE TIB for the teachers involved in “Green School” project of the Province of Varese was held on Thursday April 7th in the Conference Hall of the Cloister of Voltorre.
This is a project created by Agenda 21 Lakes and CAST (a local no profit organization) which aims to support and promote local schools in achieving the excellence in terms of sustainability thanks to the reduction of their ecological footprint and promoting an environmental culture for students, families, institutions, and in general between the communities.
The meeting was held by experts of the Province of Varese - Environment department and Lipu and was focused in providing basic concepts, useful tools and examples with the aim of developing educational courses and practical actions to engage students. This training, part of the After-Life Communication plan, has been inspired by the workshops developed during the project.

A NEW APP TO DISCOVER ALL THE SECRETS OF LIFE TIB -

A new application for Android and iOS ! is now available, It is an interactive guide for visiting the places where the concrete actions of LifeTIB are carried out.

Thanks to the “Jeco Guide” App (click here for download) you can now reach and visit in an independent way trails on foot and by bicycle created during the project. It is a library of Augmented Reality guides dedicated to environmental and cultural heritage.
The application will display the GPS tracks and individual points of interest (works, gates, places of natural interest) with pictures and descriptions, as well as an introductory tab on the project describing its principles such as the “ecological connectivity” and explaining the reason why its protection is so important.
Contents can be downloaded for free for the first year of publication. They will then become available by paying a small fee of 0.89 Euro from 2017.
If you do not have the possibility of downloading and using this app, you can find the traces of the paths, and information on how to cover them can be downloaded here.

VARESE: OTHER ENEL POWER LINES HAVE BEEN ISOLATED FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY
Another 5 km of medium voltage lines have been protected against the risk of collision and electrocution of birds along the TIB ecological corridor.

Less risks for the different birds species such as Grey Heron, Night Heron and Black Kite that normally populate the area between Lake Varese and Ticino Park. A Enel technical team has finished the plan of action against the risks of collision and electrocution of birds. The risks are caused by the possibility that birds can collide with suspended cables, or will not perch on the supports by closing circuits with wings and staying electrocuted. The 5 traits on which action was taken, identified during the project monitoring phase, are located in the area between Lake Varese and Lake Maggiore in the municipalities of Varese, Casale Litta, Taino, Galliate Lombardo and Angera and have a total development of about five kilometers. As for the first intervention held in Mornago, we applied spirals which were chosen because they have the feature to issue a sound audible by birds, vibrating in the presence of even a slight breeze - explains Francesco Rondi Lombardia Manager of Enel Distribution - Therefore they are effective even at night or in poor visibility conditions. They are color cutlery alternating white and red at a distance of 10 meters from each other on alternating three-wire line. Furthermore, in the proximity of the supports, specific protections were applied to isolate the electrified parts that may be touched by the birds with different parts of the body ".

"MOVING TO LIVE!" ON TOUR

The dissemination and exploitation work started during the TIB continues thanks to new projection moments of Video Documentary

Project staff commitment to spread the themes of ecological connection and biodiversity protection to citizens is still on going. This task has already paid off for the past four years and is made even easier by the brilliant documentary "Moving to live!" thanks to beautiful images showing what has been achieved, narrated by the voice of the researchers who worked on the monitoring of the project.
There are many requests in place for municipal administrations and associations to organize video projection and debate sessions. The next schedules are:

- February 5th at 9pm: Municipality of Sesto Calende, SALA Varalli
- May 11th, at 9pm: Arsago Seprio, Sala Concordia (exhibition "Di Terra e di Cielo" 2016);
- May 13th at 9pm: City of Casciago, Public Library
- May 26th at 9pm, ore 21: Castronno, Sala Polivalente (exhibition "Di Terra e di Cielo" 2016).

In addition to that the documentary was shown on March 19th at "Fa la cosa giusta!" Fair in Milan. A prestigious critical consumption exhibition which every year sees the participation of over 75,000 visitors.
On these events the audience will receive all the paperwork and brochures produced during the project as well as a copy of the DVD containing the documentary and video clips of deepening.