Trip to ‘Friends of Bitsevsky Park’

We’ve planned to go somewhere outside of school to make sure that year 12 actually do something for the environment. On 19th May 2011, whole year 12 went to the Bitsevsky Park to learn about the nature. In front of the park gate, we met a lady who only speaks Russian, and start touring the park. It was new challenge for me, because I don’t understand any Russian at all. However, one of our classmates who speak Russian really well translated everything for us and I was able to enjoy the tour. We expressed the tree layers in the forest by using our bodies; we draw little pictures of what we hear in the park (more like forest), the status of protected park in Moscow, etc. So we could engage with issues of global importance. It was really important to know what kinds of spices are there, how many are there because the Bitsevsky Park is selected as the national protected park. And everything in there was protected as well. The biodiversity of the forest gives us not only the status of the plants and animals but also the current situation of the plants and animals and what we should do to protect them. For example, we should plant more trees and cut fewer trees, so plants and animals could expand their territory and saved from vulnerable state.