Press tour of the Life SeaNet project on the island of Montecristo
ISPRA participated today in the Press Tour of the Life Sea.Net project, which took place at the Site of Community Interest of the Island of Montecristo. During the tour, journalists were able to visit the site, learn more about topics regarding the management of Natura 2000 Sites and some of the activities carried out within the project.
The project Life Sea.Net coordinated by Legambiente and which benefits from the participation of ISPRA as the main scientific partner, it aims to improve the management of the marine sites of the Natura 2000 Network and to increase knowledge of the Network and its role in the conservation of marine biodiversity. To provide concrete contributions to improving management, ISPRA has created some operational tools during the project that are part of a real "toolkit" : Handbooks for monitoring species and habitats of Community interest (EU Directives 92/43/EEC and 09/147/CE) in Italy: marine environment and Manual for the application of Appropriate Assessment procedures in marine sites
- https://www.isprambiente.gov.it/en/news/press-tour-of-the-life-seanet-project-on-the-island-of-montecristo
- Press tour of the Life SeaNet project on the island of Montecristo
- 2025-06-13T00:00:00+02:00
- 2025-06-13T23:59:59+02:00
- ISPRA participated today in the Press Tour of the Life Sea.Net project, which took place at the Site of Community Interest of the Island of Montecristo. During the tour, journalists were able to visit the site, learn more about topics regarding the management of Natura 2000 Sites and some of the activities carried out within the project. The project Life Sea.Net coordinated by Legambiente and which benefits from the participation of ISPRA as the main scientific partner, it aims to improve the management of the marine sites of the Natura 2000 Network and to increase knowledge of the Network and its role in the conservation of marine biodiversity. To provide concrete contributions to improving management, ISPRA has created some operational tools during the project that are part of a real "toolkit" : Handbooks for monitoring species and habitats of Community interest (EU Directives 92/43/EEC and 09/147/CE) in Italy: marine environment and Manual for the application of Appropriate Assessment procedures in marine sites
- When Jun 13, 2025 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
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The application of the Monitoring Protocols has directly involved some project partners (the marine protected areas of Regno di Nettuno, Punta Campanella and Isole Egadi; the National Parks of the Tuscan Archipelago and Cilento), through the conduct of in situ data collection campaigns in the Natura 2000 sites entrusted to their management, in order to update knowledge on the distribution and conservation status of the monitored marine habitats and species.
The monitoring activities involved a total of 10 sites, 5 of which (the Capraia, Montecristo, Pianosa, Giannutri and Gorgona Islands) managed by the Tuscan Archipelago National Park. In the Montecristo site, a natural area of the highest value (listed among other things among the Biosphere Reserve Areas within the MAB Unesco programme), the investigations were conducted on some algal communities typical of the “reef” habitat (the cistoseireti and the trottoir) and on 2 species of invertebrates (Patella ferruginea and Pinna nobilis), whose populations have undergone a notable decrease in recent decades.