Last February 27th LIFE LINES received a group of students from the 11th grade of the artistic production course, specialization in ceramics, from the Artistic School António Arroio in Lisbon.

Students, who are developing projects around the theme of animals this year, had the opportunity to spend a day in the field, guided by two technicians from the LIFE LINES project promoting the contact with nature and allowing the collection of information and materials to develop their projects. The day was spent on the Montemor-o-Novo Eco-trail, one of the project’s intervention areas. There, it was possible to observe one of the richest habitats in Portugal, the montado, and some local fauna and flora. It was also explained to students how linear infrastructures creates impacts on biodiversity and what the LIFE LINES project have been doing to mitigate these effects by promoting the link between animal populations.

Once they are not sciences’ students, this kind of actions is even more important to aware for the problems that biodiversity faces today and why it is so important to take care of what is around us.