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Exactly one year has passed since we inaugurated the mural by the artist Davide Smake Nuzzi, at ITS L. Montini in Campobasso. The power of art, which transforms spaces and minds.

The genetic code transmitted by DNA is made up of the combination of building blocks, the nucleotides, which are of only four types (A, T, C, G). Replacing even one of these bricks in the sequence can lead to dramatic results, such as a different color, a gene malfunction, the acquisition of a new characteristic…

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…

This morning the transferability actions in Romanian territory started and the appointment was at the Balea stream, in one of the most important Danube catchment areas in Romania. During the morning, NatSalmo’s technical-scientific team illustrated the procedures and methodologies developed by our project in Molise waters to the partnership present, represented by the Universities of…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Professor Nicolaia Iaffaldano, Project Manager of our project, participated as chairperson and speaker at the online conference held in Foggia between 7 and 9 September last.   The conference offered the opportunity to present the results of our project describing the benefits of cryopreservation of the semen Iaffaldano_La crioconservazione del seme come strategia per la…

Simple Summary Mediterranean trout is one of the most threatened freshwater fish at risk of extinction. A complex pattern of climatic and anthropogenic pressures has dramatically compromised its biodiversity. In particular, the introduction of non-native trout represents one of the most important threats with negative impact on intraspecific diversity of native populations. The introgressive hybridization…