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Volunteering camp 2025

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5th year of Volunteer’s camp

9th – 16th of August, 2025

The A Rocha team invites you to the 5th year of the successful Volunteer’s Camp at the Keith Morris Eco-Centre.
Join our team for a week of meaningful work, adventure and sharing! You’ll help nature in the beautiful setting of the eco-centre, practice your languages and enjoy hikes, workshops and evenings of music and inspiring talks.

Programme:

  • Above all, a lot of shared joy and fun, but also work until you get dirty and sweaty.
  • You will practice your English and German.
  • Morning work in groups in the nature garden and in the eco-centre building, cleaning ponds, weeding flower beds, preparing wood for winter, working in the forest, building a forest latrine and more…
  • Afternoon active rest, e.g. mini-course in ornithology, mycology, herbalism, bumblebee life, trips to the Eagle Mountains and other interesting places.
  • Mornings and evenings with songs, talks and reading of biblical texts on environmental topics, lectures, concerts etc.
  • Evenings together sharing your experiences in the field of nature conservation. We would be happy for you to bring photographs or short films.

Accommodation: preferably in your own tent or forest shelter, in the privacy of our friends, on a mattress in the building

Meals: shared, prepared by a professional cook with your generous help.

Food and energy allowance adults 1 500 CZK, students 1 200 CZK for the whole stay.

Capacity is limited to 30 people.

Can’t make the whole week? Just come for a few days.

Pavel Světlík and the A Rocha team look forward to seeing you there

Invitation

Download the application form

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via e-mail psvetlik@arocha.cz or by phone Radka Světlíková 775 042 221

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Practical Ornithology Course

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Practical Ornithology course

6. - 10. 6. 2025

The Czech Ornithological Society together with the Orlické Záhoří Ornithological Station and A Rocha – Christians in Nature Conservation will organize another year of the course of practical ornithology in the Orlické Záhoří region on 6th – 10th of June 2025.

A proven course for anyone who wants to start or further improve their bird identification and learn about the possibilities of birding. You will have a wonderful time with like-minded people, surrounded by great nature. You will learn a lot of information. You will help bird monitoring and conservation.

Applications and more details can be found at www.ptacikurzy.cz

Monitoring the Little Campbell River: protecting wildlife and water quality

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Little Campbell River monitoring

Canada – protecting wildlife and water quality

When you imagine a river, what do you see? Perhaps you hear the sound of water crashing over rocks or notice the clarity of the stream, revealing fish swimming along its current. Rivers like the Little Campbell River hold a quiet kind of power by offering a peaceful escape, a break from the digital chaos of modern life. 

Known as Tatalu to the Semiahmoo First Nation, the Little Campbell River’s watershed is home to diverse wildlife, including some endangered species. Maintaining the health of this river is crucial, not only for its ecosystem but also for activities like shellfish harvesting in the bay. 

A Rocha Canada’s Conservation Science team at the Brooksdale Environmental Centre has been monitoring the river’s water quality for many years. They gather data on key factors like pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, conductivity, depth, turbidity, and bacterial and chemical contamination. This data, collected from many sites, helps assess water quality changes over time, including seasonal and daily fluctuations. The data then directly informs environmental management decisions that will protect and improve the river’s health.

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How do bumblebees fare?

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Lecture - How do bumblebees fare?

17.01.2025

Dear friends, we cordially invite you to the first lecture in 2025.

On Friday, January 17th at 6 pm in the Keith Morris Ecocentre – Krupárna we will welcome an expert on bumblebee breeding, Mr. Vít Cach, a member of ČSOP Polička and Čmeláci PLUS.

The topic of the lecture will be all about the life of bumblebees, their life cycle and functioning in today’s landscape. We will learn a lot about the species that can be found in our country, the differences between them, the ways in which we can
benefit bumblebees and about keeping bumblebees in hives.

We are looking forward to an enjoyable evening.

Admission is voluntary.

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Precious semi-precious stones of Czech Paradise

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Drahé polodrahokamy Českého ráje

21. 2. 2025

We invite you to the lecture “Precious Semi-Precious Stones of the Bohemian Paradise” on Friday, 21st February 2025 at 6 pm in the Keith Morris Eco-centre Krupárna.

We are looking forward to an engaging narration and rich visual material by Libor Slovák, who has been collecting minerals for many years, but also studying the impact of quarries on the environment and their role in nature conservation.

Admission is voluntary, we are looking forward to you.

Team A Rocha

Mushroom Exhibition – 7-10 September 2023

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Výstava Houby Podorlicka 7. – 10. září 2023

Milí přátelé,

blížící se výstava hub v nás vzbuzuje naděje, že bude dobrá, protože podmínky pro jejich růst  v přírodě, pokud se ještě oteplí – jsou téměř skvělé.

Srdečně vás na akci zveme a prosíme o šíření našeho plakátku a také sběr a přivezení houbových plodnic, zejména těch vám neznámých, díky.

S pozdravy z Dobrého Pavel Světlík, ředitel AR v ČR

 

August evenings 14-17 August 2023

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August evenings 14-17 August 2023

A Rocha – Christians in conservation – warmly invites you to evening events offered as part of their volunteer week at the Keith Morris Ecocentre – Kruparná (Dobré 85).

Monday 14.8. (7 pm) lecture: Josef Kučera, biologist – ‘Interesting plants in our surroundings’

Tuesday 15.8. (7 pm) lecture: Václav Pavel, zoologist – ‘Fauna of the Eagle Mountains’

Wednesday 16.8. (7 pm) lecture: Milan Hluchý (recipient of the Silver Medal of the President of the Senate) – ‘4 + 1 The greatest problems of contemporary humanity and their solutions’

Thursday 17.8. (7 pm) concert: Slávek Klecandr, solo concert

Admission is by donation. 

www.arocha.cz 

Tel: 775042228