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Kindergarten Eco-programme Pigman's Detectives is Now Open for Application

Pigman, the patron of clean forests, is determined to continue educating children about the importance of clean forests. Therefore, JSC “Latvia's State Forests” (LVM) together with Pigman and his friend Bunny Bērziņš announce application for the kindergarten eco-programme Pigman’s Detectives for the new school year.

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 promoting 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, becoming real Pigman’s detectives!

To become a real detective and Pigman's ally, in the 2024/2025 school year, as part of the eco-programme, children will acquire four main topics:

• “Dirty Secrets of the Forest”
• “Following Pigman”
• “Forest in a toy box”
• “Let's grow oxygen!”

Kindergarten groups, which will be taking part in the programme for the second year, are invited to head for nature adventures in different seasons. At the end of the school year, the most active kindergartens will be visited by Pigman, the friend of Latvia's clean forests. You can find out more about Pigman's visit to kindergartens in the regulations of the programme.

The programme is implemented with the financial support of the Latvian Environmental Protection Fund within the project “Do not Litter the Forest”. Also, several tasks of the project have already been completed: production of visual aids for children and young people, production of “Pigman’s Sketches” with an educational material, organization of an educational game for the audience of children and young people at the conversation festival “Lampa” about the problems of forest pollution, as well as organization of continuing education courses in forest environment education for more than 40 teachers, implementing a programme accredited by the Ministry of Education and Culture.