The Municipality and the National University of Rosario launched a podcast cycle that seeks to raise awareness about the importance of wetlands for the ecosystem and for human survival.
The series called Mi Vecino el Humedal consists of 4 chapters that invite you to travel into our own Rosario ecosystem. The material is suitable for all audiences and can be heard online from the platform Spotify.
Within the framework of joint work on environmental matters between the university and the Municipality, This project is a product choreographed by Radio Universidad and the Directorate of Environmental Education of the Secretary of the Environment of Public Space, which also had the collaboration of the Sound Laboratory of the Faculty of Political Science of the UNR.
In relation to the content, In addition to touring the local ecosystem, podcasts answer questions asked by many people from Rosario about the importance of wetlands for the environment: Who is the wetland? Who live there? How do we relate to the environment?
The specialists consulted belong to different research teams of the National University of Rosario. María Cantore, Undersecretary of the Environment, appreciated the initiative and remarked: “From different narratives, the episodes invite you to participate in trips, surveys, interviews and landscapes. The sound production also works as a material that can be worked on in schools, accompanying and reinforcing the thematic axes that the Environmental Education Notebook addresses: Rosario and its wetlands, which provides tools to address environmental problems in our city”.
And I add: “From the Municipality we are carrying out actions in tune with the Rosario 2030 Climate Action Plan, in pursuit of mitigation and adaptation to climate change. To achieve our objectives, it is essential to generate an active environmental community and these initiatives aim at that”.
In this sense, the rector of the UNR, Franco Bartolacci, noted: “It is one more contribution of the Public University to the care and protection of the environment, an objective to which we are adding our scientific and knowledge production, our solidarity and actions from each space, consolidating a common agenda with the municipality, to end the predation of our common home“.
THE EPISODES
My Neighbor the Wetland is divided into four chapters that, although they have related themes, can be heard individually or together.
Episode 1: Who is the wetland?
Synopsis: We crossed the Paraná River to ask ourselves, Who is the wetland? The answers lead us to travels, legends and new questions.
Episode 2: The Capybara and His Companions
Synopsis: We enter the wetland closely following the footsteps of the capybara. Tarpon, jacanas and the dreaded yaará invite us to learn more about what it is like to live in an ecosystem threatened by fire.
Episode 3: The Fire
Synopsis: What is behind the smoke that reaches our city? We go through the history of fire in the wetland. We wonder about its causes and effects, the past, the present and the future.
Episode 4: Good Neighbors
Synopsis: We return to the city to wonder about its relationship with wetlands over time. How do we relate to the environment? What are the effects? Are we in time to generate a change?
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