08 February 2012

Continuing the launch of the campaign “An Azorean – An Plant”, promoted by the Government of Azores, happened last February 1, in Pedro Miguel Ponds, Faial Island, it was carried out one more voluntary action, this time with the collaboration of the employees from the Regional Secretariat of the Environment and the Sea and the Faial Natural Park and their families. The same counted with other volunteers from the Island, and all promptly grabbed the work tools and in the junipers and got to work. In the company of many children and adults, for a total of 45 voluntaries, we have seen being planted more than 130 plants in just over an hour and a half, under the watchful eye of a rare migratory bird that for several weeks is feeding and resting in this ponds and that has never being watched before in the Island, a glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus).

Everyone’s motivation is commendable and we just hope that we could count on it throughout this 2012 year, in which the Faial Natural Park aims to plant about 15000 plants in many of its protected areas.