Experience from ILEC's project on Environmental Education

The experience of the ILEC’s educational project is presented. The main conclusion from the project is that lakes can be applied as good educational illustrations of environmental issues due to the following seven points: lakes are typical ecosystems, lakes illustrate very well the hydrological cycles,lakes have a clear borderline, openness of an ecosystem is well illustrated by lakes, the recreational value of lakes is very clear, damage by pollutants can easily be illustrated by lakes, the social-economic value of lakes is very obvious.