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The CNGEI collaborates with LIPU the project Spring Alive!

Also this year LIPU - Italian League Protecting Birds has asked our assistance in finding out more about climate change and migration, inviting us to participate in the project Spring Alive! through which you can contribute to research on climate change action with easy, free and fun! The changes (caused by human activities) that are rapidly changing the climate of our planet are having important effects on ' environmental natural with significant risks for the survival of different species animals . These effects often are not as immediately understandable and above all require the commitment of all to be addressed and countered.

The National Council therefore proposes to the whole Association to accept the invitation of the Lipu and actively seeks in particular to cubs, scouts and explorers, to collaborate on the project Spring Alive! to help understand the effects that climate change may have on bird migration in particular. Contributing to the project Spring Alive! is very simple: because the project is based on observation and reporting the sighting of some species of migratory birds during this period they return to Europe. To make his contribution so just register on the site www.springalive.net the first sighting of four species of migratory birds that can be seen very easily, swallow, swift, cuckoo and stork.

We scout preferably carry out our activities in the open air and can easily contribute substantially to the collection of these sightings, we can do individually, but also with our unit. Spring Alive! is a project that takes place simultaneously in more than thirty European countries. So with the help of children and young people across Europe LIPU-Italian League for Bird Protection and BirdLife International (one of the largest network of environmental organizations in the world) track each year and the arrival of spring migration in our continent and collect data useful to learn more about climate change.

It 's very important to collect as many sightings as possible so that the analysis of all data collected (across Europe) allows to have reliable information on the relationship between climate change and bird migration. Climate change affecting bird migration? If so, how? This activity will help to provide answers to these questions. On site www.springalive.net you can find more information about the project (and how to contribute), climate change, migration, and how to recognize the four migratory species protagonists of the project. Also you can read what has already been discovered in recent years and find materials, games and exercises to explore all these topics.

For further information please contact the national coordinator of Spring Alive in Italy Manghetti Clare, Head of Education LIPU ( chiara.manghetti @ lipu.it )

Roberto Cenghiaro
Chief Scout

Carmel Scalfari
President