23/04/2017 - The Life+Iberlince project organizes a participatory and open days for citizenship in Montoro (Córdoba)

The Iberian lynx will be the protagonist of the April 23rd, which will be followed by workshops and play activities throughout the morning

The premiere of the children's play 'Mírame de lejos', by the company EDAE, will close the schedule of the days

The Life+Iberlince project for the 'Recovery of the historical distribution of the Iberian lynx in Spain and Portugal' will organize on 23 April in the town of Montoro (Córdoba) a participatory and open days for citizenship, with the aim of putting In value the conservation of the Iberian lynx.

To this end, it has designed a broad program of playful and dynamic activities, especially aimed at children and young people, through which participants will know basic aspects of the biology and ecology of the Iberian lynx, as well as other curiosities about the species, which will help them to become aware of the need to conserve and protect endangered species such as the Iberian lynx.

The workshops, which will be held throughout the morning in the Plaza de España in the town of Cordoba, will invite the children to create masks of lynx, to make plaques of lynx, to play a game of the Giant oca, to put music to the event in a percussion workshop... Activities that not only will have fun but also, will serve to transmit messages related to the conservation of the Iberian lynx.

During the day, which will start at 10:00am - and until 2:00pm uninterruptedly - the attendees will also be able to enjoy a storyteller with stories of lynx and can participate in a workshop of road education 'Care with the lynx', in That the monitors will give them some fundamental guidelines to follow when circulating in a territory with presence of Iberian lynx. They will also be able to visit a photographic exhibition with a selection of images of the species, their natural habitat and human context.

As a closing of the day, at the Municipal Theater Miguel Romero Esteo de Montoro will premiere at 6.30 pm the play 'Mírame de lejos', the company EDAE. Directed by María Alcántara Manzanares, the play, through humor, songs and dance, shows the history of a young Iberian lynx family and disseminates their reality and the values that are committed to its conservation.