The Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), held in Nice from 9 to 13 June 2025, brought together over 15,000 representatives from governments, the scientific community, businesses, and civil society, across 193 countries, to define common strategies for ocean protection. Among the foundations accredited by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and attending the conference was the MEDSEA Foundation, bringing with it the concrete experience gained through more than ten years of work in the Mediterranean.
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In recent days, restoration operations of Posidonia oceanica meadows have been completed off the coast of the Municipality of Domus de Maria, within the newly established Capo Spartivento Marine Protected Area (MPA).
On Friday, May 30, 2025, Sardinia hosted the First Forum on Protected Areas, a strategic dialogue that brought together key institutional and territorial actors engaged in the protection and enhancement of the island’s natural heritage.
The MEDSEA Foundation is the scientific partner of Nivea for the Posidonia oceanica seagrass reforestation project "Oasi Marina" by NIVEA, which this year involves the Marine Protected Area "Regno di Nettuno" on the Island of Ischia.
Sardinia, once again, thanks to its extensive basins of wetlands of international RAMSAR importance, with one of the largest concentrations in Italy, confirms itself as a natural laboratory of strategic relevance for experimenting with nature-based solutions, with the aim of strengthening territorial resilience, protecting biodiversity and promoting an integrated management model of wetland areas from a climate and sustainable perspective.
The installation under the TransformAr project in the Oristanese Pilot Site (Marceddì and San Giovanni Wetlands) is now officially complete, with four sensor towers positioned in the lagoon, a smart gate connected and a birdwatching station.
The educational journey of the project "Educating for the Environment: Schools and Businesses for a Circular Sardinia" has officially begun. The initiative, conceived and promoted by Associazione Il Triangolo
The marine activities of the ImPelaghiamoci project officially began with an intense week of cetacean observation between Stintino and the Gulf of Asinara. And patience was rewarded
On May 13–14, 2025, around twenty researchers from the University of Valencia (UVEG), University of Malaga (UMA), the Greek Institute for Wetlands EKBY, and Tour du Valat—an international reference center for the conservation of Mediterranean wetlands
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- Altare Hosts RICREA Meeting: Shared Strategies Through Ecological Transition Contracts
- GRRinPORT2: Innovation and Cross-Border Cooperation for Environmental Protection of Ports
- MEDSEA Launches the Wetland4Change Project in Terralba to test and validate climate change's solutions
- In Crete with ARTEMIS to protect seagrass meadows: 2nd Consortium Meeting
- MEDSEA Heads to Tallinn for the Blue4All Consortium Meeting
- ImPelaghiamoci: A Year of Initiatives to Learn About and Protect Cetaceans with the Municipality of Sassari
- Reforestation Operations Resume in Montiferru: A Forest for Bees by MEDSEA