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Wherethe School of Nature was officially opened in the national park of these spit, established in the renovated buildings in Smiltyn? and in a new building on the shore of the lagoon in Nida. The main goal of the School of Nature is to present to the public the values of the Curonian Spit National Park, what is protected and why.
"It is gratifying that young people will be able to come and get to know the Curonian Spit Park while working in an impressive school of wooden architecture nature, the building of which has been living in Smiltyn? since 1912," said Simonas Gentvilas, Minister of The Environment, who participated in the opening of the Nature School.
The Nature School is a space of informal conservation education for all visitors of the Curonian Spit β children, young people, adults, adapted for people with disabilities and seniors. Classes for schoolchildren are also very welcome. The Nature School will operate all year round and will offer conservation programs of the Curonian Spit National Park to incoming groups.
The renovated buildings in Smiltyn? are equipped with educational, lodging, catering and recreation areas. The school will be able to accept groups of up to 15 people at a time. In the new building in Nida, groups of up to 25 people are welcome. Nature lessons will be held not only in school spaces, but also in the wild, forest, dunes, research workshops or night hikes. Traveling from Smiltyn? to Nida, it will be possible to get acquainted with the nature of the entire Curonian Spit.
The construction of the Nature School of the Curonian Spit National Park was financed from the European Union Structural Funds Regional Development Funds under the project "Protection and adaptation of landscape values for knowledge" carried out by the State Service for Protected Areas.
Currently, there are 9 nature schools in protected areas: in the national parks of AukΕ‘taitija, Dz?kija and the Curonian Spit, as well as in the regional parks of Sirv?ta, Kaunas Lagoon, Kurtuv?nai, Varniai and Ε½agar?, as well as in the Ε½uvintas Biosphere Reserve. Nature schools invite not only to get to know each other, but also teach responsible behavior in nature.
