Wetlands are increasingly important aquatic ecosystems, knowing them better is the first step to protect them, but that's not all. "We need a management tool" to prevent them from being lost or compromised by carelessness, fragmented and discontinuous management, clumsy interventions, as has happened globally in the last 100 years "with over 64% of these basins having been lost".
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#SwimmingForFuture is the new MEDSEA column dedicated to the sea and the environment, every week on the foundation's social channels (instagram and facebook). Who better than Corrado Sorrentino, former swimming champion and MEDSEA ambassador to explain the challenging present we are living in
Preparations are underway for the month of ponds and lagoons next February. World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on February 2 to mark the birth of the 1971 RAMSAR convention which recognizes for the first time the ecological and environmental role of wetlands and establishes the parameters that identify those considered priority and of international relevance.
CES 2023 is only a few days away in Las Vegas and this year will host some Sardinian tech startups, among them Smart Geo Survey, the Sardinian based company, born within the Maristanis project. The most important trade fair in the world dedicated to consumer electronics will be held in Las Vegas from 5 to 8 January: this year a dozen start-ups, selected by Sardegna Ricerche, will exhibit and present themselves.
Five large EU-funded research projects including REST-COAST of which the MEDSEA Foundation is a partner, for the development of a coastal adaptation and coastal restoration, jointly analyzed the text of the draft law on nature restoration "Nature Restoration Law".
MEDSEA's first seven-year report is ready! Twelve projects divided by mission: coastal management, biodiversity conservation, climate action and circular economy. Five campaigns launched over the last 5 years in Sardinia
The reforestation and regeneration activities of Hope for Sennariolo coordinated by our foundation takes shape. Last week we had the pleasure of hosting one of the events for the reforestation of Montiferru, in Sardinia, with the Municipality of Sennariolo.
Yassine is a Tunisian diver and oceanographer; Nicole, a scientist committed to supporting Greek fishermen; and Isaac, who fights for sustainable fishing in Spain. Inspiring ordinary heroes, the landscapes they work in are an invitation to travel.
The Mediterranean Wetlands Alliance, of which MEDSEA is a member, and the partners of BirdLife International, have written to the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, asking for his commitment in preventing the loss of Lake Marmara.
- SATURN to defend the Mediterranean from illegal bottom trawling
- Rest-coast presented at cop14 in Geneva among the most important restoration projects in the EU
- MEDSEA at the RAMSAR COP14 Convention on Wetlands brings Maristanis
- An integrated management model for European wetlands: The Maristanis project is presented at the LIFE platform meeting in Burgos in Bulgaria
- Blue Waves: how to adapt to climate Change? Margaretha Breil from CMCC
- Enseres makes a stop in Oristano: we learn from the Maristanis model
- MedArtSal: Cervia and Marsala Saltpans towards product diversification
- Blue Waves: business enterprises and their resilience to climate change, interview with Vania Statzu
- From the mussel shells farm waste and the Blue Eco Lab with Nieddittas, the new circular bench is born
- From Tunisia to Lebanon, the three pilot projects to reinforce the Socio-Ecological RESilience in Mediterranean coastal areas