Baião Patrol” programme starts tomorrow
The “Patrulha Baião” programme starts tomorrow, 30 July, mobilising young volunteers committed to preserving nature and defending the forest in the municipality of Baião. This project, which is part of the Youth Volunteering Programme for Nature and Forests, is aimed at citizens living in Portugal, aged between 14 and 30, promoting volunteering practices in favour […]
“Flame Fox” involves children in a lesson on fire prevention
On 22 July, around 200 pre-school and primary school children from the municipality’s three school groups, who are taking part in the summer activities promoted by the municipality, took part in two “Raposa Chama” project initiatives, held in Baião and Santa Marinha do Zêzere. These actions, which are part of the national “Portugal Chama” campaign, […]
New River Leisure Area in Loivos da Ribeira is a dream come true
On 19 July, the mayor of Baião, Paulo Pereira, and the president of the Loivos da Ribeira and Tresouras Parish Council, António José Fonseca, together with their executive, inaugurated the new Loivos da Ribeira River Leisure Area. This bucolic space, on the banks of the River Teixeira, has been completely refurbished, in an intervention aimed […]
Delivery of five new urban cleaning trolleys to the cleaning teams.
The Councillor for the Environment at Baião Town Hall, Henrique Ribeiro, handed over five new urban cleaning trolleys to the cleaning teams.For the mayor, ‘this equipment is essential to strengthen our response capacity and to ensure that our streets remain clean and safe for everyone,’ he said.When handing over the new equipment, Henrique Ribeiro thanked […]
Baião revalidated as a “Sustainable Tourist Destination”
On June 3, Baião, the first Portuguese municipality classified as a “Sustainable Tourism Destination”, received the announcement of the revalidation of the EarthCheck “Silver Award”, an internationally recognized certification validated by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) – an entity created with the support of the United Nations Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme, the […]
World Environment Day
As part of the celebration of World Environment Day on 5 June, Baião Municipal Council, through the Environment department, organised a clean-up campaign along national roads 321 and 108. The initiative focused on collecting plastic, glass and ‘household rubbish’ deposited on the sides of the roads, and hundreds of kilos of waste were collected and […]
Sustainable management of water resources was debated in Baião
The vital importance of water was at the centre of the debate on “Sustainable Management of Water Resources”, as part of the 3rd Annual Environment and Sustainability Conference, organised by Baião Municipal Council, through the Environment department, which took place on 29 May at the Municipal Services of Santa Marinha do Zêzere, with interventions from […]
International Recycling Day
The António Mota Municipal Library marked International Recycling Day on 17 May with a fun and educational session with writer Pedro Seromenho, which was attended by children from the Prenhô Kindergarten.The councillor for the Environment at Baião Town Hall, Henrique Gaspar, opened the session, interacting with the children about the importance of looking after the […]
Three Baião applications for the Village Condominiums programme approved
Baião has had three applications approved, promoted by the Intermunicipal Community of Tâmega and Sousa (CIM-TS) for the “Village Condominiums” Programme, funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), whose interventions will focus on the area surrounding the settlements. The beneficiary villages are: Lameirão (Gôve), 49 thousand euros; Almofrela (UF Campelo and Ovil), 26 thousand […]
Environmental Education Action on the River Ovil
On 29 April, 6 and 13 May, the Environment and Education departments of Baião City Council, through the Environment and Sustainability Unit and the Education Unit of the Municipality, visited part of the mouth of the River Ovil with 10th grade students from the Vale de Ovil School Group. A total of 107 students took […]