Festival of Biodiversity

In the International Day for Biological Diversity, on Sunday 22^nd May from 15.00 to 19.00, the MUSE organises a Festival to celebrate the variety of life on Earth.

During the afternoon there will be workshops, conferences and activities for adults and children inside the MUSE.

The event will particularly focus on the topic of the legumes, with the opening of the new exhibition of the vegetable gardens of the MUSE, that in the International Year of Pulses sponsored in 2016 by FAO is entirely dedicated to beans, chickpeas, peas, broad beans, grass peas and to over 500 varieties of legumes.

Programme:

at 15.00

Opening of All the legumes of the world, the new vegetable gardens of the MUSE to celebrate 2016, as International FAO Year of Pulses.

From 15.30

Presentation corner: the institutions involved in the conservation and enhancement of the biodiversity introduce themselves.

Activities

• “Animal biodiversity and adaptation” organised by the MUSE. Naturalized animals, fur and feathers, teeth and beaks: an overview of the traditional species of the Alpine regions and their adaptations as hint to talk about biodiversity and conservation.
• “Guinness insects” organised by the MUSE. Discover which is the strongest, fastest or heaviest insect… in the world!
• “The conservation of the bird life in the agricultural environment” organised by LIPU
• “How to survive to the mating season: active protection of the migration of amphibians in Trentino” organised by WWF.
• “Legumes information desk” organised by MUSE. Take the traditional legumes to the MUSE to support the rescue and conservation of this variety.
• “Grow a plant and pass the word” organised by Morena Paola Carli
• “Exhibition of legumes” organised by MUSE and in collaboration with Slow Food Trentino Alto Adige and Mandacarù Altromercato.
• “Legume tasting” organised by Slow Food Trentino Alto Adige
• “Bio-diverse picnic” organised by MUSE

at 15.30 and 17.30 (reservation in the afternoon of 22^nd May)

Bioblitz – organised by the MUSE: to the discovery of spontaneous vegetation and of the microcosm which inhabits a lawn.

At 15.30, 16.00, 16.30, 17.00, 17.30 and 18.00(reservation in the afternoon of 22^nd May)

Guided tours at the vegetable gardens and at the MUSE

At 15.30 (reservation in the afternoon of 22^nd May)

Guided tour “Nature and landscape. Exploration inside the MUSE”.

At 16.00 and 17.30 (reservation in the afternoon of 22^nd May)

The gang of the vegetable gardens – organised by the MUSE

At 15.30, 16.30, 17.30 and 18.30

• The floral map of Trentino - organised by Rovereto Civic Museum Foundation
• Silkworm: a butterfly with a precious thread - video edited by the secondary school - Istituto Comprensivo S. Cuore of Trento
• Biodiversity of the invisible world in the high Alps – organised by the MUSE
• Exhibition “The landscape of Trentino. A path between nature and human activities” organised by TSM/STEP – school for the management of the territory an of the landscape, MUSE and Trentino historical museum foundation.

From 15.45 (every 15 minutes)

Dialogues of biodiversities, from the landscape to the invisible world, with STEP, FEM and MUSE researchers

• Biodiversity and landscape - Annibale Salsa, director of the scientific committee of STEP.
• The biodiversity seen from space – Duccio Rocchini FEM, Department of Biodiversity and molecular ecology
• Not only wine! Birds and biodiversity in the vineyards of Trentino - Giacomo Assandri MUSE, zoology of vertebrates
• “Who's who”in the groundwater: biodiversity, adaptations, ecological strategies - Maria Cristina Bruno, FEM, Department for sustainable agrosystems and bio-resources
• Not only alpine pioneering, but also insects and climate: Edward Whymper (1840-1911)  has more to tell - Mauro Gobbi, MUSE, Zoology of invertebrates and hydrobiology
• Micro-diverse inside: the human microbiota and the health - Francesca Fava, FEM, Department for food quality and nutrition

At 21.00

Biopop. The show of the variety by and with Duccio Canestrini

All aboard the Ark. Yellow tomatoes, jellyfish, South American Indian, pokemon, gods, odd animals. Biopop is a multimedia show dedicated to species and cultures on the verge of a breakdown. So to say, living beings which are kind but in a different way