World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on February 2, marking the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands signed on February 2, 1971, in Ramsar, on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
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The MEDSEA Foundation has officially joined 73 other international organizations in signing the Camargue Red Alert, a collective call to action to safeguard the Camargue wetlands in France.
The MEDSEA team participated in the second Consortium meeting of the Wetland4Change project in Valencia from November 26 to 28, 2024. The meeting was organized by local project partners, the University of Valencia.
Different islands, but similar issues for marine ecosystems, which are heavily threatened by unregulated anchoring from recreational boating and illegal trawling. In Malta, as in Sardinia, the damage is particularly evident in the Posidonia oceanica meadows, an endemic species of the Mediterranean Sea and a crucial habitat for marine life and oxygen production.
Le recenti inondazioni a Valencia sono un esempio tangibile di come gli eventi estremi legati al cambiamento climatico stiano aumentando in frequenza, intensità e durata, colpendo duramente il Mediterraneo, un vero e proprio "hotspot" climatico. In poche ore, piogge torrenziali hanno riversato fino a 490 mm d’acqua, pari alle precipitazioni di un anno intero, saturando il terreno e sopraffacendo i sistemi di drenaggio.
The monitoring activities of the Posidonia oceanica meadows in the Marine Protected Area (MPA) of Capo Testa Punta Falcone, located in Santa Teresa Gallura, have officially begun. In recent days, the marine team of the MEDSEA Foundation, led by marine scientific coordinator Francesca Frau, started surveying operations within the waters of the MPA
In Late September, the seventh Consortium Meeting of TransformAr took place in Exeter in South West England, organised by the partner Westcountry Rivers Trust, who are coordinating the Nature Based solutions in the catchments of the River Axe, the River Camel and the Somerset Levels and Moors Ramsar Site.
From September 8 to 14, Marceddì (OR) hosted Costa Produttiva, a multidisciplinary workshop that combines research, innovation, and sustainability for the future of our coasts. Organized by the DICAAR of the University of Cagliari in collaboration with the Region of Sardinia, the Municipality of Terralba, and numerous national and international partners, including MEDSEA
This summer, the Biodiversity Award 2024 - Assunta Maria Brachetta Festambiente by Legambiente was awarded to Nieddittas for their project of creating an island from mussel shells, in collaboration with MEDSEA, off the coast of Corru Mannu in Sardinia, where the plant operates.
- TransformAr Open Day in Marceddì: Marshes and Lagoons to Reimagine the Future
- MEDSEA joined the Natural Heritage Interreg Euro-MED Mission in Rovinj for aligning in projects' Communication
- DesirMED: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation, Regional Comparison at the Mid-Year Assembl
- Waste Hunt at Sella del Diavolo to Protect our Cetaceans Friends
- Active Restoration of Posidonia oceanica: MEDSEA at the 2024 World Seagrass Conference in Naples
- TransformAr Open Day on July 5th 2024: Discovering Transformative Solutions for Climate Change at the Marceddì Lagoon
- Puliamo la Sella! 2024 dedicated to our cetacean friends, with WWF, returns to Cagliari on June 15, 2024
- Deep Dive: The Talk for World Oceans Day
- First SEG Meeting of the BLUE4ALL Project: A Focus on Surveillance and Biodiversity Protection
- RICREA introduces itself in Lucca, working on updating the Contracts, and will also focus on the Blue Crab