The towns and cities of the Algarve will have a “local accommodation for birds”. This is the name of the project approved by the agency for Administrative Modernization, under the Participatory Budget Portugal and proposed by Fábia Azevedo.
The project, which is regional in scope, won the OPP with funding of 150 euros and will last for 24 months.
To achieve this, a collaboration protocol has now been signed between ICNF – Regional Directorate for Nature Conservation and Forests of the Algarve and the Vita Nativa Association – Nature Conservation, of which Fábia Azevedo is the director and founder.
The objective of this "local housing for birds" is to "foster interest and provide more direct contact between the population" with the avifauna, "increase the availability of shelter" for passerine species, with a focus on urban tits and prey, and also «to raise awareness of the importance of birds in the well-being of urban ecosystems in the Algarve».
Devices for capturing images will be installed in occupied nest boxes, for live transmission of the images obtained, through an online public access platform, to be created.
According to ICNF, the implementation of the project falls within its competences, as this body "has the mission of proposing and implementing integrated land use planning and management policies, in conjunction with public and private entities, in the fields of nature conservation, biodiversity and forests'.
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