{"id":5913,"date":"2022-04-06T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:41:07","slug":"alunos-de-elvas-plantam-amendoeiras-com-inpp-greeners","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/eventos\/alunos-de-elvas-plantam-amendoeiras-com-inpp-greeners\/","title":{"rendered":"Students from Elvas plant almond trees with InPP Greeners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, three classes from Alc\u00e1\u00e7ova Primary School planted nearly two dozen trees next to the Amoreira Aqueduct in Elvas, in an initiative that brought together the school, the InnovPlantProtect sustainability team, the Elven municipality and Bolschare.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was with tiny hands and feet, but a lot of gumption and willpower, that around 50 students from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th years of school from the Alc\u00e1\u00e7ova Primary School<\/a>, In Elvas, they took shovels, hoes, watering cans, buckets and 19 one-meter-high almond trees to plant them in the area around the so-called \u201cAmoreira arches\u201d in Rossio de S\u00e3o Francisco, next to the historic Elven aqueduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had the help of the teachers, the technicians from SOF Jardins and the researchers from the sustainability team of the InnovPlantProtect<\/a> (InPP), InPP Greeners<\/a>, which launched this action, Cl\u00e1udia Almeida Silva<\/a>, C\u00e1tia Patr\u00edcio<\/a>, Cristina Azevedo<\/a> e Joana Castro<\/a>. And the weather: after initially being planned to mark World Tree Day 2022, on March 21, the activity took place this afternoon, April 6, with the sun shining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The area where the planting took place belongs to the Elvas City Council<\/a> (CME) and the almond trees were donated by Bolschare<\/a>. With this action, InPP Greeners sought to make elementary school students aware of the importance of trees for life. The almond trees were chosen because not only are they part of the work being carried out by InPP, but they are also of great economic interest to the region and are very beautiful landscape trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The CME immediately embraced this initiative \u201cfor obvious reasons\u201d, says Councillor Hermenegildo Rodrigues, who was on the ground today accompanying the activities. \u201cAs decision-makers, we have to value changes in habits and attitudes when it comes to the ecological footprint and, above all, involve those who will be the future decision-makers,\u201d said the councillor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sim\u00e3o, aged 7, was one of those who tried his hand at eating an almond - there are already mature almond trees there; he was surprised when InPP department director and Greeners member Cristina Azevedo showed the children the drupe's epicarp, with its characteristic green color. For Sim\u00e3o, \u201cif there weren't trees, the world wouldn't have trees\u201d, which are also very important \u201cbecause they give us apples and pears\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was \u201ca very rich initiative, because the students need this kind of activity, which involves them, associates them with the city and gives them the \u2018power to do\u2019\u201d, observed Ana Teresa Babinha, a 2nd grade teacher. \u201cAnd there was an opportunity for everyone to do it, to try their hand at planting,\u201d said the teacher, who praised the action for getting the children to actually \u201cget their hands dirty\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana Teresa Babinha also highlighted the fact that the students will now be responsible for looking after these almond trees, in a system yet to be defined by the school. What's more, it's an activity \u201cthat will come to life in the classroom\u201d, because it's an opportunity to approach the topic of the importance of trees in a new way in the context of formal learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The InPP Greeners are InnovPlantProtect's (InPP) sustainability team, created at the end of 2021 to share knowledge and good practices that lead to the creation of more sustainable laboratories and institutions, as well as promoting the adoption of more sustainable behaviors by all citizens. Follow them on Twitter at @InPPGreeners<\/a> or contact them by email at inpp.greeners@iplantprotect.pt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tr\u00eas turmas da Escola B\u00e1sica de Alc\u00e1\u00e7ova plantaram hoje perto de duas dezenas de \u00e1rvores junto ao Aqueduto da Amoreira, em Elvas, numa iniciativa que juntou a escola, a equipa de sustentabilidade do InnovPlantProtect, o Munic\u00edpio elvense e a Bolschare. Foi com m\u00e3os e p\u00e9s pequeninos, mas muita genica e vontade, que cerca de 50 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5914,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5913","eventos","type-eventos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/5913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eventos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15046,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/5913\/revisions\/15046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}