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.
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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.
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".
#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
- 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
- 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