From March 4th to 6th, 2025, Heraklion (Crete) hosted the mid-term meeting of the ARTEMIS Interreg Euro-MED Natural Heritage project, organized by the Hellenic Marine Research Centre. This was a crucial moment to take stock of ongoing activities and outline future strategies for the restoration of seagrass meadows, which are essential for Mediterranean biodiversity
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Last January, the Blue4All project team gathered in Tallinn for the Consortium Meeting, marking the project's halfway point. The event, hosted by the local partner Keskkonnaamet/Estonian Environmental Board and the University of Tartu, brought together all 22 project partners from across Europe, including MEDSEA
Promoting greater knowledge of the resident cetaceans in the Pelagos Sanctuary*, a transboundary marine protected area encompassing France, Liguria, Tuscany, and Sardinia, to improve the protection and conservation of these species and their habitats.
Reforestation efforts in Montiferru, led by MEDSEA, are back on track. Following the planting of the first 5 hectares of olive trees, holm oaks, and Mediterranean shrubs, the focus now shifts to melliferous plants to create a "Forest for Bees."
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Wetlands such as ponds, lagoons, lakes, rivers, and peatlands form an endless world of aquatic ecosystems. In Sardinia, the call to explore these habitats is open this February with the Sardinian edition of World Wetlands Day.
The activities of the COASTRUST project, funded by the European Interreg Euro-MED program, have officially begun in Sardinia. The initiative aims to promote shared environmental management in the Mediterranean's coastal areas, addressing anthropogenic pressures that threaten biodiversity.
World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on February 2, marking the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands signed on February 2, 1971, in Ramsar, on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
The MEDSEA Foundation has officially joined 73 other international organizations in signing the Camargue Red Alert, a collective call to action to safeguard the Camargue wetlands in France.
The MEDSEA team participated in the second Consortium meeting of the Wetland4Change project in Valencia from November 26 to 28, 2024. The meeting was organized by local project partners, the University of Valencia.
- Malta’s First Posidonia Meadow Restoration Project Led by MEDSEA Foundation
- We are all at 'Valencia'-like risk, and here’s why
- Monitoring of Posidonia oceanica Meadows Begins in the Marine Protected Area of Capo Testa Punta Falcone
- MEDSEA joined the 7th TransformAr Consortium Meeting in Exeter
- Architecture and Environment of Wetlands at Costa Produttiva, September 8-14 in Marceddì
- Festambiente Award by Legambiente to the Mussel Shell Island at the Nieddittas Mussel Facility
- TransformAr Open Day in Marceddì: Marshes and Lagoons to Reimagine the Future
- MEDSEA joined the Natural Heritage Interreg Euro-MED Mission in Rovinj for aligning in projects' Communication
- DesirMED: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation, Regional Comparison at the Mid-Year Assembl
- Waste Hunt at Sella del Diavolo to Protect our Cetaceans Friends