On Sunday 18 December 2022, our Stefano Esposito (Mediterranean Trout Research Group) also participated in the sixth edition of the winter contest “The flies of the Volturno” organized by “Amici del Volturno e dei sue tributari”, invited to illustrate the actions and results of the our project. Between LIFE NatSalMo and the Volturno fishermen, in fact,…
20 Dec
The reproductive season on the Volturno has restarted
Even if today is Sunday, the NatSalMo technical-scientific staff is still at work on the Volturno River for the first catches of Mediterranean trout spawners. A little while ago, at “I 25 archi”, a splendid specimen of mature female allowed us to obtain 4 quotas of eggs which were fertilized in situ with the fresh semen…
16 Dec
Environmental education activities dedicated to Molise students restarted
On 7 December in Ripalimosani at the Dante Alighieri Comprehensive Institute, while on 13th in Campobasso with the children of the V B: thus the environmental education activities dedicated to Molise students restarted.
04 Dec
The NatSalMo photo of Valeria Scrilatti at MAXXI
Here it is finally revealed the amazing photo of Valeria Scrilatti, exhibited at MAXXI, which immortalizes our cryobank! Contrasto’s collective exhibition “Climate Change Italy: from the drought crisis to the melting of glaciers, loss of biodiversity, energy communities and circular economy”, you can admire it Rome until 8 January.
01 Dec
First test in the Volturno river
Yesterday our technical-scientific staff went to the Volturno, near Monteroduni, for a direct check of the first phase of the incipient reproductive season and for a semen sample to be genotyped.
25 Nov
Animal husbandry? No thank you. Cryobank and biodiversity conservation
A few years ago, just in the months in which we were writing the LIFE NatSalMo project, an illuminating article appeared on the pages of the magazine “The Biologist” on the importance of cryobanks in the conservation of species, written by William Holt, professor at the University of Sheffield and honorary researcher in Conservation Biology for the survival of species of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution. Holt remembered when, in…
22 Nov
From tomorrow our project is also at the MaXXI in Rome!
One of the photos taken this summer by the photographer Valeria Scrilatti (Contrasto agency) about the actions and places of our project has been selected to be included in the collective photographic exhibition “Climate Change Italy: from the drought crisis to the melting of glaciers, loss of biodiversity , energy communities and circular economy” which…
21 Nov
6th Open Forum
The sixth Open Forum NatSalMo will take place on 28 and 29 November: we are truly on the finishing straight! We look forward to seeing you in Oratino on 28th and in Rocchetta on 29th November, starting at 4pm.
13 Nov
First incipient trout nests in the Volturno: closure of the No Kill stretches
With the last recent rains and with the lowering of temperatures, the autumn season finally seems to have come alive in Molise. In the depths of the Volturno and its tributaries, the first trout females begin to be seen sporadically, intent on moving the gravel to build their own nest, in which in due course…
05 Nov
The value of wildness
When repopulating actions are carried out, we must try to avoid as much as possible the domestication of the animals that have to return to the river: Pierpaolo Gibertoni, ichthyologist veterinarian of the partner MTRG (Mediterranean Trout Research Group) explains it well in this video, who talks to us about rusticity and wildness maintained thanks…