The Monitoring Visit photo gallery, with the main moments of the two days:
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In-person monitoring visits in Campobasso
After more than two years, the in-person monitoring visits are finally back! Today, 29 March 2022, all the NatSalMo staff – including the project monitor Noemi Spagnoletti and the project officer Sarunas Zableckis – are involved in Unimol, in Campobasso, on the first day of monitoring, the one intended to illustrate the progress of the…
NatSalMo Information panel in Unimol
An information panel on our NatSalMo project was placed at the headquarters of Unimol’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Food in Campobasso, home of the first European seed cryobank of native trout.
Flag of a garbage in the Sordo river
Yesterday the project’s facebook page received a flag of a garbage spill near the Sordo river, complete with coordinates for the discovery of the area. To report the fact, a fisher boy, who also attached some of his “catch and release” fishing videos on trout specimens, asking us if they were native or not. What…
Soon 200,000 native trout eggs in the Biferno and Volturno
Good news for Molise and for the protection of its inland waters: during the first days of March, the repopulation activities of the Volturno and Biferno rivers were started with new specimens of Mediterranean trout, a vulnerable species in Europe and at risk of extinction in Italy . Thanks to the life Nat.Sal.Mo project, the…
Everyone to the River!
On February 25, 2022, our project finally managed to return along the river together with the school children! Thanks to the significant improvement in the pandemic situation, in fact, last Friday we organized a meeting on the Biferno with the students of two secondary schools from the comprehensive G. Barone di Baranello Institute. To illustrate…
World Wetlands Day – webinar “Conservation of aquatic ecosystems, territorial planning and involvement: a strategy for the protection of biodiversity”
“Enhance, Manage, Restore, Love wetlands”: this is the slogan launched by the 2022 global campaign, on the occasion of World Wetlands Day. An anniversary that is celebrated on February 2 to commemorate the anniversary of the “Convention on wetlands of international importance”, signed in Ramsar (Iran) in 1971 and signed up to now by 170…
Two days of networking for Natsalmo
More than positive results for the networking event organized on 18 and 19 January 2022 in the Molise area by NatSalMo with the IdroLife and Life Streams projects. IdroLIFE aims to improve the conservation status of fish and crayfish species of community interest through concrete conservation interventions on the species in the Natura 2000 sites…
From Turkey, a lecture about crybiology at Unimol
As part of the Erasmus + project, Professor Yusuf Bozkurt, of the Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Department of Aquaculture in Iskenderun Technical University (Turkey), gave a lecture on 7 December entitled “The role of cryobiology in conservation of aquatic genetic resources” in UniMol, at the Agriculture, Environment and Food Department. The visiting professor…
The reproductive season of the Volturno has started
We have started the first reproductions of the Volturno native trout. It was a December of great activity, in the field and in the university laboratories, where the freezing of the semen of the males who had already arrived at the reproductive sites and where the genetic analyzes were carried out took place. The first…