29/06/2016

Lithuania. Thursday, 5^th of May at Aleksandras Stulginskis University Faculty of Forest Science and Ecology big crowd of young people, young forest friends were participating in already traditional (already sixth year in a row, with a great support from Ministry of Environment) National Stage of Contest Young People in European forests. This year 13 teams were participating and showed good knowledge about the topics they were prepared as a poster presentations, as well as the knowledge of materials they were studying for the second part of the contest – the test. Various topics and formal problems of the forest and the forestry were touched. To name some: forest protection, regeneration, biofuel, history of forestry, social aspects, biodiversity. After hard voting and double checking the test results, commission decided to give the highest points to  Rugilė Andrejevskytė, Danielius Krasauskas, Tomaš Savel team, leaded by teacher Jūratė Taučiuvienė. They were representing Meilė Lukšienė gymnasium from Marijampolis, Vilnius region.