We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year filled with blessings, health, prosperity, and abundance.
Team A Rocha
Volunteering camp 2025
5th year of Volunteer’s camp
9th – 16th of August, 2025
The A Rocha team invites you to the 5th year of the successful Volunteer’s Camp at the Keith Morris Eco-Centre.
Join our team for a week of meaningful work, adventure and sharing! You’ll help nature in the beautiful setting of the eco-centre, practice your languages and enjoy hikes, workshops and evenings of music and inspiring talks.
Programme:
- Above all, a lot of shared joy and fun, but also work until you get dirty and sweaty.
- You will practice your English and German.
- Morning work in groups in the nature garden and in the eco-centre building, cleaning ponds, weeding flower beds, preparing wood for winter, working in the forest, building a forest latrine and more…
- Afternoon active rest, e.g. mini-course in ornithology, mycology, herbalism, bumblebee life, trips to the Eagle Mountains and other interesting places.
- Mornings and evenings with songs, talks and reading of biblical texts on environmental topics, lectures, concerts etc.
- Evenings together sharing your experiences in the field of nature conservation. We would be happy for you to bring photographs or short films.
Accommodation: preferably in your own tent or forest shelter, in the privacy of our friends, on a mattress in the building
Meals: shared, prepared by a professional cook with your generous help.
Food and energy allowance adults 1 500 CZK, students 1 200 CZK for the whole stay.
Capacity is limited to 30 people.
Can’t make the whole week? Just come for a few days.
Pavel Světlík and the A Rocha team look forward to seeing you there
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via e-mail psvetlik@arocha.cz or by phone Radka Světlíková 775 042 221
Lecture – Not only to see orchids of the Mediterranean
Not only orchids of Mediterreanean
7th of March, 2025
Another evening for the public, focused not only on the flora of the Mediterranean, will be led by long-time A Rocha employee Filip Laštovic.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday March 7th 2025, 6pm, at the Keith Morris Ecocentre in Krupárna.
A Rocha team
Admission is voluntary.
Practical Ornithology Course
Practical Ornithology course
6. - 10. 6. 2025
The Czech Ornithological Society together with the Orlické Záhoří Ornithological Station and A Rocha – Christians in Nature Conservation will organize another year of the course of practical ornithology in the Orlické Záhoří region on 6th – 10th of June 2025.
A proven course for anyone who wants to start or further improve their bird identification and learn about the possibilities of birding. You will have a wonderful time with like-minded people, surrounded by great nature. You will learn a lot of information. You will help bird monitoring and conservation.
Applications and more details can be found at www.ptacikurzy.cz
Traveloque – Holiday discovering Japan
Holiday discovering Japan
31st January, 2025
All travel fans are invited to the traveloque “Holiday Discovering Japan”
We will welcome Klára and Petr Škopkovi, who will share their experiences and photos with us.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday, January 31st at 6 pm at Krupárna.
A Rocha team
How do bumblebees fare?
Lecture - How do bumblebees fare?
17.01.2025
Dear friends, we cordially invite you to the first lecture in 2025.
On Friday, January 17th at 6 pm in the Keith Morris Ecocentre – Krupárna we will welcome an expert on bumblebee breeding, Mr. Vít Cach, a member of ČSOP Polička and Čmeláci PLUS.
The topic of the lecture will be all about the life of bumblebees, their life cycle and functioning in today’s landscape. We will learn a lot about the species that can be found in our country, the differences between them, the ways in which we can
benefit bumblebees and about keeping bumblebees in hives.
We are looking forward to an enjoyable evening.
Admission is voluntary.
Precious semi-precious stones of Czech Paradise
Drahé polodrahokamy Českého ráje
21. 2. 2025
We invite you to the lecture “Precious Semi-Precious Stones of the Bohemian Paradise” on Friday, 21st February 2025 at 6 pm in the Keith Morris Eco-centre Krupárna.
We are looking forward to an engaging narration and rich visual material by Libor Slovák, who has been collecting minerals for many years, but also studying the impact of quarries on the environment and their role in nature conservation.
Admission is voluntary, we are looking forward to you.
Team A Rocha