Move yourself around the environment

We live in a world where natural resources have been exhausted and, in most of the cases, the man's hand does not care the environment as he should. That is why it is so important that young people are aware of the importance of protecting our environment. For this reason, our City Council and the Association of Youth in Action from Padul suggest developing a youth exchange where we will approach topics related to the knowledge about our environment, our visitors and natural resources, energy saving, climate change and recycling. Our exchange is focused on young people between 18 and 30 years old and will be developed mainly in our town, El Padul, from 2nd to 11th of October 2015. Through our Project, we hope to show and teach the great environmental heritage of Padul, which we can boast for its rich natural resources and its care, most used renewable energies and, ultimately, to share and benefit from attitudes, values and ways of caring the environment in which we live. Padul belongs to the Lecrin Valley, in the province of Granada (Andalucia) and it is within the Natural Park of Sierra Nevada. Therefore, it is a privileged place to carry out the environment topic. Our Laguna is one of the most important wetlands in Spain due to its rich biodiversity, and the great amount of species that lie here, including some autochthonouss species. Apart from all of this, we must add its paleontological values because mammoth’s remains have been quite often appeared in our lagoon. In addition, we are a climate change studying centre, as the passage of migratory birds is studied here, that means that it is usual to see a lot of wind turbines in the area. We also have a cluster directed to energy research and training of new building materials, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Would you like to visit our town? Would you like to know a different environment where remains of mammoth have been found? Come and visit us !!