‘Oxigenar Braga’, an environmental awareness program developed by the Municipality and aimed at the entire population, especially children and young people with greater aptitude for changing behaviors, enabled the planting of more than 600 fruit trees, in the 2024 edition , which took place between March 18th and 24th.
The program included several activities, marking World Forest/Tree Day and World Water Day. The municipality distributed trees to six Parish Councils and Unions, four associations, ten IPSS and 29 schools that signed up. In this edition, a 500-meter section of the Barral river was adopted by EB1 de Nogueira. EB 2.3 André Soares, EB 2.3 Dr. Francisco Sanches and European School of Professional Education, who removed around 30 liters of cigarette butts from the streets, and consequently from the water lines. The workshops on propagating aromatic and medicinal plants and paper recycling, held at the Market, had around 70 people, including many ERASMUS students.
The program included two showcookings at the Municipal Market, with demonstrations of simple and sustainable dishes and respective tastings, with the collaboration of the Associação Empresarial de Braga and Elevate, and there was also training for teachers on “Algae Proteins”, which in addition to The theoretical part also included the preparation of various dishes.
Citizens were challenged to clean the Este river, with Bosch joining in with more than 50 employees and their families, cleaning the ‘Blue Elephant’ area and planting trees in the riparian gallery, in addition to 15 other volunteers who attended the INL for cleaning the Este river. In this edition there was also an activity to control invasive plants, in Picoto, where dozens of acacias, namely mimosas, were uprooted and peeled.
The “Native Trees of Portugal” exhibition was at the University of Minho during the Oxigenar Braga week, which also visited the Pedralva Educational Unit and the CACI de Gualtar, from APPACDM de Braga.
The program also included the lecture “The importance of bees and the fight against the velutina wasp” held by APICAVE and Casa do Povo de Adaúfe, Crespos, Navarra, Santa Lucrécia de Algeriz and Pousada, at the headquarters of the Parish Council of Santa Lucrécia de Algeriz.
For the councilor for the Environment, Altino Bessa, “’Oxigenar Braga’ was once again a success, both due to the number of entities and people involved, and the variety of activities, which indicates the high value that this type of initiatives has for the county.”
