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.

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

Last Saturday 18 December we were in Sesto Campano on the banks of the S. Bartolomeo stream, a tributary of the Volturno, with 43 students of state comprehensive school “Don Giulio Testa”. For that day, boys and girls were asked to feel like real researchers and to evaluate, by filling in a field card, their…

Another prestigious award for our project, this time as part of the “Paths of Water and Stone. The story of a value for the communities “.   Promoted by the Molise Museums Regional Directorate and the “Vivian Maier” Center for Photography of Campobasso, the competition was held as part of the Strategic Plan for Cultural…