The University Botanic Garden in Balchik is joining the European Environmental and Botanical Garden Education Network
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The University Botanic Garden in Balchik (on the Black Sea coast) has become a partner of the European Environmental and Botanic Garden Education Network, park botanist Mariana Mincheva told BTA. The London's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Botanic Garden in Innsbruck are also participants in the network. The park complex in Balchik will host an educational students program from schools in the seaside town. The purpose of the project is to form contemporary attitude to the ecological balance in the nature and to increase the childrens' knowledge of botany by acquiring practical skills. They will learn how to make pressed plant herbariums and will also be acquainted with the use of the medicinal plants growing in the park, Mincheva explained.More than 3,000 rare and exotic plants, including more than 200 tree species, fabulous flowers and a unique collection of about 250 cactus species (representing Europe's second most important collection) grow currently in the botanic garden. Thus, it is not surprising that the park has become a part of the teaching facilities of the Sofia University in 1955. Besides students, the complex welcomes more than half a million tourists during the summer season. Source:BTA |
