The Funchal Ecological Park (PECOF) has a new "Biodiversity Trail." It is a thematic space, with an area of 2300 m², offering visitors the opportunity to observe and get to know 50 species of island flora, revealed the Funchal City Council (CMF) Councillor for the Environment, Nádia Coelho.
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Tomorrow evening (Saturday), from 10:30 pm International Bat Night will be celebrated at the the Cristo Rei viewpoint, in Garajau.
The Funchal City Council (CMF), through the Funchal Ecological Park, together with the Basic School of the 2nd and 3rd Cycles Dr. Horácio Bento de Gouveia, have won the Biodiversity: Preserve and Regenerate contest of the ECO-Escolas programme with their 'Project for Monitoring Bat Shelters in the Ecological Park of Funchal.'
The Francisco Franco Secondary School, Barbusano Ecology Club, recently held a lecture on “The importance of pollinating organisms in the balance of ecosystems.”
On the 14th of June at the Gonçalves Zarco Basic and Secondary School, tropical biologist Ricardo Rocha, researcher in the field of Nature Conservation, researcher at the Research Centre for Biodiversity and Genetic Resources of the University of Porto, and bat specialist held a seminar on the importance of "Bats as agricultural pest controllers in Madagascar and Madeira."