Game Fair 2011: discovering the charm of nature, among predators and nice friends.
It will be a game, a way to pass the time while the parents are busy at the Game Fair 2011 (2-5 June - Lido di Tarquinia), but also a way to learn something more about nature, its rules and balance that keeps it alive.
It is the scout camp of the Tarquinia I group of the Italian Catholic Guides and Scouts of Europe, of the Federation of European Scouting, promoted by the National Hunting and Nature Committee (CNCN). In the area made available by the fair, the Tarquinia scouts will install a real field in which you can "learn by doing", the activities are aimed in particular at children in the 11-15 age group but there are also games for children smaller.
Starting with "L'Angolo dei Capi", the antenna with the flags, passing through "The Fire Box" and "The Miner's Refuge", the kids who want to try their hand at nature experienced in all its details , even those less easy but certainly more real, will be able to learn some survival techniques such as lighting a fire with makeshift means and building a shelter in the woods.
The other planned activities will concern games with ropes such as “The passage to the marinara” and the “Teleferica” complete with harness and pulley, without forgetting the knots and ties of course. Finally also notions of the now famous “Orienteering” with the learning of the use of the compass and the construction of a sundial to tell the time. Finally, there will also be the pleasure of building, with the construction of a catapult and "water rockets", probably the most popular in the event, as we hope, of sunny days.
The activity will be playful but also educational, with the delivery to all participants of a handout that will collect the fundamental notions that the young people will have been able to touch, use and experience during the hours spent in the camp.
The National Hunting and Nature Committee wanted to help create a space dedicated to young people at the 2011 Game Fair, with the collaboration of those who have always taught children to live in contact with nature, and to "free" the families present on the Lido di Tarquinia sometimes has very different needs both to recreate that form of education from life that has too often been lost in the cities.
The idea of "learning by doing" is the best we can hope to get closer to nature without partisan ideologies, to discover its charm and dangers, too often forgotten by those who want to give it a cartoonish idea, decidedly fake .
Young people who want to spend time in the field will therefore be able to discover the delicate environmental balance that regulates the life of woods and lakes, where there are certainly many funny friends of all of us but also predators who, in one way or another, intervene to keep adjust the whole system.
In addition to the field, shared with the Heads of the Scouts Group of Tarquinia, the CNCN will be present at the fair with a stand where it will be possible to collect information material on the activity of the association and on the recent sociological surveys commissioned, together with FACE Italia (Federcaccia, Anuu Migratorists, Enalcaccia, LiberaCaccia), at the Astra Ricerche institute.
From the two studies the picture of hunting and hunter activity in Italy emerged that was decidedly different from those advertised up to now, the research on hunting in particular - the most extensive and in-depth ever carried out so far - has brought out a very important data: the majority of Italians are in favor of responsible and regulated hunting (which has been hunting in Italy for thirty years).