Events and News

The Audouin's gull in Sardegna

The short film "Il Gabbiano corso in Sardegna" was produced by ISPRA in cooperation with the La Maddalena Archipelago National Park. The video illustrates, in the form of a tutorial, the survey methods used for the monitoring of this species that ISPRA implements and coordinates for the European Directive on Marine Strategy. The trend of birds closely linked to the marine environment is an indicator of the state of health of the sea, necessary to define the most suitable strategies to achieve the "Good Conservation Status" of this habitat.

At Geo the LIFE Perdix project coordinated by ISPRA

In the December 15th episode of Geo, the service "La Valle del Mezzano" was broadcast, in which the LIFE Perdix project, coordinated by ISPRA, and carried out jointly with the other partners was also discussed. The activities to protect the Italian gray partridge and what is being done for its reintroduction into nature were illustrated.

Pollution in marine sediments. How to improve data quality

Homogeneity and coherence: these are the fundamental characteristics that environmental data must have in order to be used on a large scale. Access to good quality data on pollutants in marine sediments is of paramount importance for the assessment and adoption of appropriate measures for environmental management.

From the Bioeconomy Strategy to the Integrated Bioeconomy, in harmony with life and the laws of nature

On 12 and 13 December in Rome, the Interdisciplinary Observatory for the Bioeconomy and the scientific journal "Economy and the Environment" are promoting the multidisciplinary scientific conference between research and action entitled "From the European Commission's bioeconomy strategy to the integrated bioeconomy and in harmony with the life and the laws of nature: analyses, practices, experiences, activities".

Monitor the disappearance of glaciers to understand the urgency of climate adaptation

The climate crisis and the national adaptation plan
The Caravan of the Alps is an information campaign by Legambiente born in 2002 to tell the story of the Alpine territory, a fundamental ecosystem for the conservation of biodiversity in Europe made fragile by climate change and excessive exploitation of resources.

UN Biodiversity conference 2020 (COP15)

From 7 to 19 December 2022, governments from around the world will gather to take stock of the health of our ecosystems and agree on a new set of goals to guide global action through 2030 to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.

Towards a European map of soil biodiversity: focus on mesofauna

On the occasion of World Soil Day, CREA Agriculture and Environment of Florence in collaboration with the H2020 EJP Minotaur project and the Italian Society of Soil Science (working group on the biological soil quality index) organize the conference "Towards a European map of soil biodiversity: focus on mesofauna".

Alien explorations

Alien species and space exploration will be the focus of the conference. Entertaining and scientifically rigorous, this event will talk about the new frontiers of space exploration, and some of its possible risks, such as that of accidentally spreading terrestrial organisms outside our planet.

Project "Egyptian Vulture". The fight against the illegal use of poison: a commitment for everyone

As part of the "Egyptian Vulture" Life Project, which provides concrete measures that can avoid the extinction of the Egyptian vulture in Italy and consolidate its recovery marked in the last two decades in the Canary Islands, a meeting promoted by Federparchi will be held in Cefalù (PA) and from the Madonie Park.

Alien alert

When we talk about alien species we mean animals and plants (and not only ...) that man has transported and introduced outside their area of ​​origin. A real threat to biodiversity, health and the human economy. In the laboratory conducted by ISPRA in collaboration with the Lazio Region, created by the Life-ASAP project, it will be explored through the game and the story of how many ways these species can be moved and what each of us can do, in our daily life, not to spread … the alien!

ISPRA participates at the Science Festival of Rome

Pandemics, climate change and environmental crises demonstrate how much we need new outlooks on the present and new visions for the future. And, therefore, how much we need to explore, starting from what we know and opening up to what we don't know.

The Rome Science Festival is the ideal context to analyze the various themes, meet different people and disciplines, because it offers a rich variety of events.

In the seventeenth edition of the Festival we will talk about exploration in all areas of science, including new frontiers of art, photography, literature, with a curious look on all aspects of contemporaneity.

Monitoring and biodiversity in the city. Let's explore the Natura 2000 network in Villa Borghese with Citizen Science Trekking and cycle tour - 19 November 2022

ISPRA's National Biodiversity Network is a partner of the 2022 Urban Nature edition, the initiative promoted by the WWF that intends to involve the best existing energies at national and local level committed to promoting and managing urban biodiversity. Several events scheduled from 8 to 9 October 2022 organized in various Italian cities by the partners participating in the initiative - the "Friends of Urban Nature" - including ISPRA.

When a large mammal enters the city ... it's never good news!

The guest of the evening will be an ISPRA researcher who, starting from the stories of large urban mammals around the world, will illustrate the many reasons why it is not always appropriate to pursue coexistence between man and wildlife. Like all things concerning the interaction between man and nature, there are no special recipes that are good for all occasions, but complex solutions, often with great margins of uncertainty.

COP14 on the conservation of wetlands

The 14th Meeting of the Conference of Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP14) is held November 5-13 in Wuhan, China, and Geneva, Switzerland.
The theme of the COP is Wetlands Action for People and Nature.
The Convention has as its objective the international protection of wetlands through their identification and delimitation, the study of the characteristic aspects, in particular of the avifauna, and the implementation of programs that allow the conservation of their habitats, flora and fauna. Currently 172 countries have signed up to the Convention, including all EU member states, and 2,455 Ramsar sites have been designated for a total area of ​​255,897,678 hectares.

Agrifood systems based on circular economy

As part of the FAO Science and Innovation Forum which will take place from 17 to 21 October 2022, CREA is organizing a Special Event entitled "Agrifood systems based on circular economy" to stimulate, with a multi-stakeholder approach, a fruitful debate on innovations scientific and technological technologies necessary to achieve the objectives of the UN 2030 Agenda, focusing, in particular, on Sustainable Development Goal 12: Guaranteeing sustainable consumption and production models.

ISPRA is participating in the VII European Conference on sea turtles with a photographic exhibition and comics of the INDICIT Project

The 7th edition of the European Sea Turtle Conference in Tetouan, Morocco, opened on 18 October.
ISPRA is participating by presenting the exhibition and the volume "Marine litter looking for a new world" created as part of the INDICIT I and II projects.

Second meeting of the seventh Global Environment Outlook

The second meeting of the seventh Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is underway in Nairobi which in 3 years will have to produce a report on the state and prospects of the global environment. Four themes will be worked on for the report that will see the light in 2025: loss of biodiversity, climate change, pollution, land degradation.

Living Planet Report 2022

Thursday 13 October will host the launch event of the Living Planet Report 2022, the WWF's global report on the health of the planet. The Report provides a clear picture of the health status of vertebrate species populations around the world, which can be used to measure the overall health of the ecosystem. Nature has been showing this for years: we live in the full "Anthropocene", the era in which unsustainable human activities are pushing the natural systems that sustain life on Earth, including ours, to the limit. The 2022 edition focuses on the close relationship between nature loss and the climate crisis, identifying the system changes necessary for a nature-positive future.

Half-Earth Day 2022

The forests of the National Park and UNESCO MaB Sila Area between conservation and sustainable management

Half-Earth Day is an international project created to protect the planet, a real awareness campaign that is driven by the need to conserve "half the earth and the sea" to safeguard as much biodiversity as possible.

Pesticides: reduce the use of synthetic chemicals in agriculture by 2030, how and why

The conference "Pesticides: reducing the use of synthetic chemicals in agriculture by 2030, how and why" will be held on 12 October in Rome. Two ISPRA researchers will participate in the meeting with interventions on the impact of pesticides on species and habitats and pesticides in surface and groundwater.

Pollinators Path

The exhibition "Pollinators Path" which in the summer from 19 to 30 July was presented at the "Museum of Ecology of Cesena" is now continuing, expanded and revised by the Maiella and Aurum park in Pescara. The exhibition, which is part of the JRC-EU STING project, has ISPRA researchers among its curators.

Climate change mitigation: the contribution of agriculture and forests

Agriculture, including animal husbandry, is often indicated as an important source of greenhouse gas emissions, even if the data made available by international (IPCC, FAO) and national (ISPRA) organizations indicate a less significant contribution than that of other human activities. However, it remains a priority to act in compliance with EU and national policies to mitigate the contribution of the primary sector (agricultural production, land use and land use change) to the greenhouse effect and climate change.

About 2,000 nautical miles in seven days to monitor cetaceans and sea turtles along fixed transepts in the southern Tyrrhenian and in the canals of Sardinia and Sicily

Multidisciplinary monitoring will start this week, within the LIFE  Conceptu maris project, coordinated by ISPRA, which sees the joint presence of entities such as the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station, the University of Palermo and the University of Milan Biccoca.

Ecosystem monitoring: a new generation of biodiversity indicators

On 3 October the seminar "Monitoring ecosystems: a new generation of indicators for biodiversity" will be held in Matera, at the ARPA Basilicata headquarters.
The meeting was attended by operators in the protection of habitats and species to share experiences, procedures and projects for monitoring biodiversity and evaluating terrestrial ecosystems. During the seminar ARPA Basilicata and ISPRA will present some activities on the monitoring of biodiversity in Val d'Agri and the methodologies used for the assessment of ecosystems. In addition, some tools developed by ISPRA and ARPAB for the standardization of the acquisition, archiving and processing of data on ecosystems will be shared.

Sea and lagoon: say, do and… monitor!

ISPRA researchers are available to adults and children in the
Marine Biology headquarters of the University of Padua for an evening of knowledge and exchange. The monitoring, conservation and restoration of the lagoon and marine environment carried out by the Institute on the territory will be illustrated

European Researchers' Night 2022

Also this year ISPRA will participate in the European Night of Researchers together with 10 other public research bodies and universities.
The initiative, which will be held throughout Europe on Friday 30 September, is an opportunity to bring citizens closer to the world of scientific research and to discover the activities and results of public research on the most topical issues.

With talks, shows, games, experiments, our researchers will talk to us about circular economy, climate change, biodiversity, soil and sea protection and much more ....

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Further information

Indicators, indices and scenarios for the analysis of the main environmental trends

On 28 September ISPRA is presenting the methodological document "Indicators, index and scenarios for the analysis of the main environmental trends". The publication analyzes the main emerging environmental issues (natural capital, climate change, circular economy and environment and health) through three different approaches whose common thread is the use of the indicators present in the Environmental indicators database.

The first relates the trends of the environmental indicators and the regulatory changes of reference, the second proposes a description of the trends of the main environmental issues using composite index, finally, the third describes the process of construction of environmental scenarios.

Program

Indicators, indices, and future studies for the analysis of the main environmental trends

Green city: the color of the urban sustainability - Scientific aperitif

Creating environmental and social conditions to develop sustainable cities and communities is one of the challenges we are called to respond to in the near future. Nature-based solutions, inspired by the functioning of natural ecosystems, can be an active tool for sustainable management of urban areas, to address in an integrated way the environmental and social problems caused by global and climate change

Kick off meeting progetto PNRR "Tech4You"

The Kick off meeting of the PNRR "Tech4You" project will be held on 27 September at the University of Calabria. As part of the project, ISPRA participates as an affiliated partner in Spoke 2 - Goal 2.3 "Protection and enhancement of biodiversity". The project aims to study and protect the marine environment.

Final conference Aquila a-Life project

The final conference of Aquila a-LIFE will be held on 21 and 22 September 2022, during which the results obtained in the 5 years of the project (2017-2022) will be presented. The AQUILA a-LIFE Project (LIFE16 NAT / ES / 000235), funded by the European Union, aims at the recovery of Bonelli's Eagle in various areas of the western Mediterranean. For this reason, more than 120 specimens of this species have been released in Spain and Italy and the main current threats to the raptor have been addressed, with particular reference to the danger of electrocution. ISPRA followed the release activities in Sardegna.