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Kindergartens Apply for the LVM Eco-programme Pigman’s Detectives

Already for 16 years, Pigman has been educating children about the importance of clean forests. Therefore, JSC “Latvia's State Forests” (LVM) together with Pigman announces applications for the kindergarten eco-programme Pigman’s Detectives for the new school year. This year, children will have the opportunity to get to know not only the patron of clean forests, but also their new friend – Hare the Birch!

“Pigman’s Detectives is an LVM eco-programme for preschoolers – 5 to 7-year-old children. Since 2005, the programme has been offered in cooperation with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia with the aim of stimulating children's responsibility towards the environment, increasing awareness of the valuable and the harmful in nature. As part of the programme together with teachers, children discover the various secrets of the forest step by step, thus becoming real Pigman’s detectives.

The first 100 kindergartens that will have applied for the eco-programme Pigman’s Detectives by 21 September will receive additional learning materials already in October. The application form and all the necessary information are available in the Pigman’s Detectives section.

To become a real detective and Pigman's ally, in the 2023/2024 school year, as part of the eco-programme, children will acquire four main topics: “The Dirty Secrets of Forest”, “Following Pigman's Footsteps”, “Forest in a Toy Box” and “Let's Grow Oxygen!”. Kindergarten groups that will be working in the programme for the second year, will be able to go on adventures in nature in different seasons of the year. At the end of the school year, the most active kindergartens will be visited by Pigman, the friend of Latvia's clean forests.

The programme is implemented with the financial support of the Latvian Environmental Protection Fund within the project “Do not Litter the Forest”. Various activities are planned for this year in the project: organization of the eco-programme Pigman’s Detectives, production of forest educational game “Kokmīļu ABCD”, visits by Pigman – the main character of the project – to schools, kindergartens and children's camps, public events. Also, a number of tasks of the project have already been completed: production of visual aids for children and young people, production of “Pigman’s Buffet” with an educational print, organization of an educational game for children and young people at the conversation festival “Lampa” about the problems of forest environmental pollution, as well as organization of continuing education courses in forest environment education for more than 40 teachers, implementing a course programme accredited by the Ministry of Education and Culture.