The students' project focused on the decrease of biodiversity and its impact on the population of Egyptian vultures in their area. They were divided into groups to research the topic and two groups presented their findings. They learned about the work of a local collaborator who monitors and protects Egyptian vultures. The students also had a hands-on opportunity to observe one of the last Egyptian vulture couples in the area near their nest with the collaborator. They saw how conservationists track down poisoned baits that threaten the vultures.

1. 1st EPAL of Trikala
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2. *The students’ project is
about the decrease of
biodiversity and its
impact on the
population of Egyptian
vultures in our area
which is a particularly
characteristic case.

3. *
*FEBRUARY 2014
*A presentation of the project titled “the sense of
biodiversity and the phenomenon of its decrease as a
result deriving from human interference” by Mr.
Efstathiou Christos, member of our pedagogical team.
The impact of this phenomenon on the birds of our
area were presented and gone over as its most
characteristic example.
*Then, our students were divided into groups and
undertook the task to select as much information as
possible in order to prepare the first project which is
to be presented to you by KOSTAS PAPARSENIS and
NIKOLAK KIOYTEZA.

4. *
Mr. Vavilis Dimitris, a collaborator
of the Greek Ornithological
Society, who is also responsible for
the monitoring as well as the
protection of the Egyptian Vulture
in our region, informed our
students about his work and
answered their questions. That
“conference” took place in our
school, for this particular reason,
and was showed off by the local
mass media.
The groups of our students, again,
collected all the necessary data
and prepared the second project
that MESITI KLEITA and ROUDOS
NICKOS are going to present to
you.

5. *

6. *
There was an activity in the area of
Meteora where Egyptian vultures
nest, that is they make their nests.
Our students and three of the
members of our pedagogical team,
Mr Efstathiou, Mr Kotsis and Mr
Trigas, following the directions of Mr
Vavilis’, the cooperator of the Greek
Ornithological Society mentioned
above, observed one of the last
couples of Egyptian Vultures left in
our territory near their nest, on the
steep rocks.
In parallel, there was a “briefing”
about the way people in charge
track down the poisoned baits that
are the main cause for the
extinction of Egyptian Vultures in
our area with the help of a dog
which is specifically trained for this
task.

7. *
The activity was
shown off by the
local mass media
and published on
the site of the
Greek
Ornithological
Society. Also, there
is a video about
this activity that
we are going to
show to you later
on.

8. *The presentations of our projects were
accomplished via Prezi, a contemporary Web
2.0 tool.
* The translations into the English Language
were accomplished by our students with the
supervision of Mrs, Maria Sakka, a member of
our pedagogical team as well.