A child looks through a microscope. PHOTO: Manuel Castells

World Environment Day Photo Gallery

The activity, aimed at children and the general public, began at 12.00 h. with several environmental workshops: 'Draw nature', where environmental drawings were made; 'Build a crocodile', consisting of making animals with beads; and 'What animals!', which focused on the observation of sponges, corals or starfish through a binocular magnifying glass.

The Museum of Natural Sciences of the University of Navarra, constituted in 1980 from several donated collections -such as that of the Capuchins of Lecároz- and its own funds, houses more than nine thousand specimens of various species of animals and minerals, as well as old containers, texts, tools and apparatus once used in pharmacy, Chemistry and photography. The Botanical Herbarium and the Zoology Museum are also part of the collection. The latter, with more than 2,500,000 specimens of invertebrates, is the second most important collection in Spain, only surpassed by the National Museum of Natural Sciences of the CSIC.