LIFE TRANSFER

LIFE 19 NAT/IT/000264

Seagrass transplantation for transitional Ecosystem Recovery

Transplantation continues in Mar Menor!

Great news! The species transplanted by the University of Murcia in the Mar Menor lagoon continue growing. For the first...
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First official Seagrass Day

In May 2022, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed March 1st as World Seagrass Day!  Highlight the urgent need to...
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Transplantation in Barbamarco (Italy)!

First transplant was carried out in the Barbamarco Lagoon, located in Po Delta Veneto Park, in the province of Rovigo,...
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Transplantation in Barbamarco (Italy)!

LIFE TRANSFER

The Life Transfer project aims to improve the conservation status of habitat 1150* due to seagrass regression in 8 Natura 2000 sites in 3 Member States:

  • Italy – IT4060002 – IT4060005 – IT3270023 – IT3270017

  • Greece – GR2110001 – GR2110004

  • Spain – ES6200030 – ES0000260

The specific objectives are:

  1. Restoring and consolidating priority habitat 1150* in 6 coastal lagoons, by transplanting submerged phanerogams to promote ecosystem self-sustainability
  2. Contributing to achieve a good ecological state of transitional water demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed actions to pursue the objectives set in the WFD 2000/60/EC
  3. Quantifying the value of ecosystem services provided by the lagoon environments and the seagrass meadows
  4. Training of future trainers in this techniques, targeting site managers/professional not participating to the project to ensure transferability and replicability in other sites.