The Government of the Azores, through the Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and the Environment, is promoting dozens of actions in the context of the celebrations of the International Day of Forests, involving more than 2,100 participants throughout the archipelago.
 
These initiatives include multiple awareness-raising actions especially directed to students, such as visits to plant nurseries, lectures, paper chases, planting of endemic specimens and rehabilitation of school grounds with several plants.
 
These awareness-raising activities were implemented by the Regional Director for Forest Resources in partnership with several public and private entities. They include the dissemination of Recreational Forest Reserves, endemic flora and the areas of intervention of Island Forest Services.
 
On Monday, March 21, the date that marks the International Day of Forests, there will be activities directed to the general public, such as the screening of a film at Santa Cruz das Flores Museum and Municipal Auditorium on the subject "Protecting forests is to value life."
 
On that day, the island of Terceira hosts a representative exhibition of production and endemic forests that can be visited at Praça Velha in Angra do Heroísmo. In turn, the island Pico organises a meeting with the local elderly population to take place at Santa Luzia Recreational Forest Reserve.
 
In a joint organisation with the Village Council of Arrifes in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, there will be an awareness-raising action with the distribution of endemic plants to 200 children attending free time occupation centres (ATL).
 
On this day, the Pinhal da Paz Park reopens to the public, after the interventions to recover from the damage caused by bad weather conditions in December. The Government of the Azores will promote in this Recreational Forest Reserve an information session on "Service Providers Exchange in Forest Areas" and "Inclusion of Cryptomeria Wood in the Portuguese Standard EN 1912." It is addressed to all partners in the forestry and construction sector.