The bench made from mussel waste - as the result of the collaboration between MEDSEA, the Nieddittas company and the University of Cagliari (Department of Civil, Environmental and Architecture Engineering DICAAR) - was exhibited at the Milan Design Week, from 18 to 23 April, in the rooms of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts within the "Vivarium" exhibition.
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This year MEDSEA is a legacy partner for this edition of ROAMERS: a part of the registration fee will go to finance "A Forest for Bees", the new MEDSEA project for the creation of half a hectare of nectar forest for bees and other pollinators.
From 17 to 23 April 2023 is the Tigullio Design District - TDD, the first international event dedicated to marine/nautical, outdoor and lifestyle design, located in the splendid scenery of the Gulf of Tigullio in Liguria. The heart and main target of TDD is the world of design linked to the sea, from yachts, to those who design and produce nautical products and accessories, up to those linked to coastal waterfronts and the marine environment, with an eye to sustainability and blue circular economy.
With a report from the Lagoon of Murta Maria, in the municipality of Olbia, which tells of the narrative interweaving between man, birds and nature of the wetlands, from a double point of view, that of a father and that of a child, he wins the MEDSEA award #ADayInTheWetlands Gianluca Flore (@gianlucaflore)!
Prevent widlfires by using Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to detect forest fires early. This is the purpose of the collaboration between MEDSEA and Vodafone International, within the Legacy program of Extreme E, underway in the forest of San Leonardo, in the Oristano area. In particular, the activity with Vodafone would complete the ongoing reforestation project of Hope for Sennariolo.
Little tern, common tern, sandwich tern, rosy gull and black-winged stilt are some of the bird species that have found a home in Corru Mannu in recent weeks. Thanks to the circular economy project applied to mussel farming - which sees MEDSEA and Nieddittas cooperating in the name of environmental protection at the forefront - the artificial islet made with mussel shells in the wetland in the Gulf of Oristano is populated!
Santa Teresa Blue Camp, the training program for operators at sea and on land of the Capo Testa Punta Falcone Marine Protected Area, has been successfully accomplished by 30 Tourist operators. The course, financed by the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, which the MEDSEA foundation coordinated these months, in collaboration with the municipality of Santa Teresa Gallura, started on January 30 and ended on March, 15th 2023.
On November 20th, the negotiating table of the Conference of the parties held in Sharm El Sheikh ended. Two months later we have enough distance to avoid the distorting perspective of controversies. In the face of an acclaimed need to avert catastrophes due to human pressure on ecosystem balances on a global level, the outcomes of the COPs have often been denounced as inadequate.
Anti-trawling systems have been positioned off the Sinis coast this week to inhibit and prevent illegal trawling in the Sinis Peninsula - Mal Di Ventre Island Marine Protected Area, in Sardinia.
- Sardinian Wetlands, the best way to protect them is "to manage them"
- #SwimmingForFuture with Corrado Sorrentino
- World Wetlands Day Sardegna 2023: Let's talk about Sardinia Wetlands
- Smart Geo Survey alla CET di Las Vegas, l'evento tech più importante al mondo, il 5-8 gennaio 2023 (2)
- Joint contribution to the EU Nature Restoration Law by Rest-Coast and four sister EU research projects
- Read the MEDSEA 1st report 2017 - 2022: all projects and campaigns, all in once
- Hope for Sennariolo, the reforestation takes shape with Roseberg x Racing
- The Sentinels of the Mediterranean, the new documentary to act for Marine Biodiversity, is out
- 25 ONG from the Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands and BirdLife called for preventing Marmara Lake's loss in Turkey
- SATURN to defend the Mediterranean from illegal bottom trawling