One of the objectives of the RESMYLE project is environmental awareness. Through a collaborative effort, RESMYLE partners identified 40 existing educational resources that can help trainers and educational organizers conduct various activities with youth with the goal of raising awareness on a specific environmental issue. All educational activities development and documented by RESMYLE can be accessed on this web portal: http://act4urplanet.eu/

What are the human impacts of ecotourism activities on natural sites? How are forests and natural areas polluted?
An educational resource documented by RESMYLE aims to help trainers implement an activity to learn about Ecotourism and its role in site depollution.

Through this educational resource, organizers can raise awareness about popular natural area in their country that is facing increasing pollution due to tourism activities. Specifically, the educational resource offers a step-by-step guide to organize a site depollution activity with a group of NEETs. The activity includes travelling to the site in question for a few hours and:

1. Conduct a site clean-up in different zones of the site.
2. Map areas with high pollution and waste.
3. Document the type and percentage of waste collected during the clean-up.

Once the hands-on activity is completed, the educational resource provides guidance to brainstorm possible solutions with the youth participants, such as implementing a waste management system, signage systems to raise awareness for tourists, and ecotourism principles.

Overall, this activity can help youth and NEETs investigate how natural areas, such as forests, are polluted, gain the knowledge needed to urge their peers to change their behavior that may contribute to forest pollution, and understand the principles of eco-tourism and eco-hiking and its importance for sustainable development.

For more details, you can access the educational resource here.