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…
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15 Jan
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…
30 Dec
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…
20 Dec
Field trip for students
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…
16 Dec
Photo contest “Paths of Water and Stone. The story of a value for the communities “
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…
09 Dec
Open Forum: towards the River Contracts
The heavy snowfall that affected a large part of the Apennines on Monday 29 November – and Campobasso in particular – did not discourage the participants in the second Open Forum on river contracts. In fact, more than 50 people attended the event organized at the former GIL headquarters in Campobasso for various reasons. Municipalities,…
07 Dec
In the Volturno, the ascent of the first males is about to begin
The first males of the Volturno are about to go up the sides for reproduction and it is time for most of the young born in spring to let themselves be carried away by the current and reach the main course where they will reach sexual maturity: the few young trouts that do not let…
18 Nov
Open Forum NatSalMo is back in Campobasso
The Open Forum #Natsalmo is back on Monday 29 November. In Campobasso, at the headquarters of the former GIL from 15.00 to 18.30 we will discuss in a proactive manner the River Contracts, voluntary tools for planning and strategic management of river resources, the result of a synergistic collaboration between institutions and citizens. As part…
17 Nov
Rio Santa Maria ready for the lifts of the breeders
The first heavy rains of autumn have arrived. For the Biferno trout it is time to prepare for the ascent to the breeding sites. In a few weeks the gravel groves of Rio Santa Maria will host the first spawns of reproducers who face journeys of up to tens of kilometers to reach the most…
29 Oct
The improvements on the Rio Caprionero work!
This summer we had completed the construction of the fish passages on the Rio Caprionero (basin of the Volturno River) and on the Rio S. Maria (basin of the Biferno River). These works are fundamental to overcome the barriers that man has built in the river beds and which prevent or make it more difficult…