LIFE TRANSFER

LIFE 19 NAT/IT/000264

Seagrass transplantation for transitional Ecosystem Recovery

Life Transfer on Euronews!

Out now Ocean the “Blue carbon” episode on Euronews Green !! Could Europe's coastal wetlands address our climate change concerns?...
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Cymodocea nodosa transplants also advance!

Cymodocea nodosa transplants continue to be carried out by researchers from the University of Murcia on the beach of Los...
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Cymodocea nodosa transplants also advance!

Transplants continue in the Mar Menor!

Ruppia cirrhosa (Perdiguera island) Perdiguera island (receiving zone) Donor meadow Extracting Ruppia cirrhosa
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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.