The Executive Forestry Agency has launched the "Be a Forest Ambassador" campaign. The initiative is dedicated to the International Day of Forests - March 21, and the upcoming Forest Week.
"We are targeting the campaign primarily at children who participated in our campaigns last year and who are already ambassadors of the forest," the organizers specify. These children and their teachers will be provided with short videos dedicated to the forestry profession and the activities that take place in the forests. "In this way, the information will spread in the classes and we will be together again, albeit virtually," the Executive Agency adds, adding that the children become bearers of the messages about forest protection.
The video materials will be made available to all those wishing to join the campaign through the structures of the Executive Forestry Agency throughout the country, the directorates of the Natural Parks, the regional forest directorates, forest protection and forest seed control stations.
The UN General Assembly declared 21 March as the International Day of Forests (IDF) in 2012 to raise public awareness of their importance, conservation and sustainable development. The theme for each International Day of Forests is chosen by the Partnership for Forest Cooperation. This year it is “Forest Restoration: A Path to Recovery and Prosperity”