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Networking with LIFE Streams project at Pollino 22 Apr

Networking with LIFE Streams project at Pollino

Two truly exciting days of networking those just spent with LIFE Streams at Pollino. Natsalmo’s technical-scientific team, in presence and remotely, promptly illustrated all the innovative techniques that are their own, triggering a real and productive confrontation, with many ideas for future work.

Balance of the third NatSalmo Open forum 13 Apr

Balance of the third NatSalmo Open forum

In the third meeting yesterday attended by representatives of the municipalities of the two basins, of the Region, of citizens’ and environmentalist associations. Those present carried out an initial identification of the strategic objectives, highlighting valuable elements (to be protected and enhanced), potentialities and negative aspects, to be eliminated to ensure an increase in the…

The Third Natsalmo Open Forum 08 Apr

The Third Natsalmo Open Forum

The participatory process that will lead to the signing of the River Biferno and Alto Volturno Contracts continues. The Third Natsalmo Open Forum, to be held in Campobasso on 12 April, will restart from the considerations and requests that emerged in the previous meeting to jointly identify the priority objectives for the two river basins.…

In-person monitoring visits in Campobasso 29 Mar

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 24 Mar

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 21 Mar

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 09 Mar

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! 03 Mar

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” 02 Feb

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…