The 6 Operational Assistants assigned to the project on Pico Island and the Operational Assistants of the LIFE BEETLES project were in training yesterday, in order to learn the safe handling of the machinery used in the construction of cattle fences within the scope of action C4.1 “Best practices for the conservation of terrestrial habitats” of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project. During this training, they acquired practical experience with a motorized pile driver (to bury the wooden posts) and a professional stapling machine (to attach the barbed wire to the posts). Now that the workers have finished their training, all we need to do is wait for the weather to improve to start building the fences to exclude livestock from the project intervention areas!