Events and News

Published "Marine Litter: looking forward a new world" in the frame of the INDICIT II Project

As part of the INDICIT I and II Projects, both financed by the European Commission and with the participation of 14 international partners, ISPRA has produced an ITINERARY EXHIBITION consisting of photographs, comics and a documentary.
Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the exhibition had a limited circulation and thus the idea was born of spreading it in virtual mode through a catalog that represented the works of the Exhibition in order to bear the testimony of the project, waiting for them to resume in throughout Europe the normal activities of scientific dissemination and communication.

Climate crisis and the role of trees

The webinar "Climate crisis and the role of trees" aims to spread right information on a topic which was discussed during the last internation meeting such as G20 and COP26. An ISPRA expert is participating at the event with a presentation on "The climate is changing: ecosystem services and urban forestation actions".

After 30 years on the national law for protected areas

After 30 years on the national law for protected areas, the Ministry of Ecological Transition organizes a day on the role of parks, in the light of the European strategy for biodiversity, the Green New Deal and the NRP, and on the results of conservation and promotion actions.

The reintroduction of the Gray Partridge in the Valle de Mezzano: first results

The Life Perdix project has the general objective of reintroducing in nature - and more specifically in the Valle del Mezzano SPA in the Po Delta of Emilia-Romagna - the Italian Gray Partridge (Perdix perdix italica), until recently considered extinct.

The network life

Protecting biodiversity is one of the crucial missions for safeguarding the environment. But do we really know what the richness of organisms is in the various ecosystems? Experts from ISPRA, Anthon Dohrn Zoological Station and CNR-IRBIM will lead us into the extraordinary variety of lives that populate agro-forestry systems and seas.

The National Biodiversity Network told through a video

The census and sharing of existing databases in Italy on the subject of biodiversity are among the activities assigned to Ispra, through the management and population of the National Biodiversity Network information system (ISPRA / Mite Convention). In order to increase the network of providers participating in the network system and to allow the reuse of the data available for scientific and informative purposes, ISPRA has created the informative video that can be consulted on ISPRA YouTube 

Nature Map - It is available the one of the region Emilia-Romagna

As part of the work to create the Nature Charter of Italy, the map of habitats and related ecological environmental assessments are now available on the ISPRA website for the region Emilia-Romagna.

Carta of Nature to improve knowledge, protect and plan

Carta della Natura is a national project whose products constitute a technical tool of knowledge useful for the management of the territory.
These are cartographic and evaluative products on Italian ecosystems and terrestrial habitats, inserted in a Territorial Information System of public utility.
The aim of the webinar is to share experiences and to highlight how this tool, designed at the time of Law 394/91 to support the system of protected areas

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Carta della Natura (Map of Nature) of the Emilia-Romagna Region: habitat cartography and assessment at 1:25,000 scale

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The bioeconomy of forests

The fourth edition of the national forum "The bioeconomy of forests" will be held in Rome at the Cavour Congress Center on Thursday 18 November. Organized by Legambiente, the Forum is an opportunity for discussion on good practices, tools and political choices to relaunch the country and start a process of green transition for the entire economy, focusing on biodiversity management and increasingly sustainable forest planning and responsible.

ISPRA participation in Sealogy 2021

PNRR - Restoration and protection of the seabed and marine habitats for a sustainable blue economy
The 2021 edition of Sealogy, the European Blue Economy Exhibition, will be held in Ferrara from 18 to 20 November.
ISPRA will be present at the event and is organizing on November 19, together with the MiTE, the conference "PNRR - Restoration and protection of the seabed and marine habitats for a sustainable blue economy".

28th plenary session of the European Agencies for the Conservation of Nature

The 28th plenary session of the European Agencies for the Conservation of Nature (ENCA Network) will take place from 16 to 17.
The main topics of this session will be the adaptation of principles and practices for nature conservation to climate change and the "transformative change" of our ways of producing, transforming, consuming natural resources and how this can affect protection measures. and restoration of nature.

2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress

From 15 to 18 it will be held 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress, launched by Italian Foreign Ministry and International Cooperation, CGIAR and Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, organized in collaboration with a vast number of partner, included ISPRA

The wolf national monitoring explained with an infographifc

In an infographic, the main steps of wolf conservation in Italy: from the campaign launched by WWF and the Abruzzo National Park to the various regulatory interventions that have consolidated the protection regime up to the implementation of national monitoring.

IPBES: launch of a revision of the draft document: "Scoping report for the business and biodiversity assessment"

The IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Plaftorm on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) has announced the launch of a revision of the draft document: "Scoping report for the business and biodiversity assessment". The final report intends to define the methods for evaluating and classifying the ways in which companies depend on biodiversity and impact on it and the contributions of nature to people and businesses themselves.

Project for the protection and enhancement of urban and extra-urban green areas related to the PNRR

Objective: to plant 6.6 million trees, involving 14 Italian metropolitan cities
The Ministry of Ecological Transition signed the 300 million euro agreement for the protection and enhancement of urban and extra-urban green areas envisaged by the Pnrr together with ISPRA, Cufa, Istat and the inter-university research center "Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability" (Cirbises ) of the Sapienza University of Rome. The Project is one of the important commitments envisaged by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.

Beyond economic growth for the protection of biodiversity and food resilience

An article published in 2021 by the European Environment Agency (EEA), entitled "Growth without economic growth" will be the focus of a seminar that ISPRA organizes for November 5, 2021. The article, published in Narratives for Change, a series of analyzes and prospective studies on the factors of change and transition, to explore alternative ideas on growth and progress, with the aim of broadening the debate on sustainability.

Successful release of 5 Egyptian vultures

On 20 August 2021 five young Egyptian vultures were released in the Murgia Materana Regional Park as part of the  LIFE Egyptian vulture project to support the small Italian population of this small migratory vulture, which has come to the brink of extinction.

Fixed Line Transect Mediterranean monitoring Network - FLT Med Net. The long-term international agreement for the monitoring of marine macrofauna and the main threats deriving from maritime traffic and marine litter has been renewed

ISPRA and fourteen Research Institutions of the Mediterranean Area just signed the new triennial Agreement for continuous standard monitoring of cetaceans, sea turtle, other macro fauna and main threats (FLT Med Net, 2021 – 2024). The Agreement renew a long-term free of charge collaboration which started in 2007, when ISPRA (ex APAT) set off a sustainable approach for gathering long term data on marine macro fauna and two of their main threats (influence of maritime traffic, exposure risk by Floating marine macro litter) using ferries as platform of research. Since then, the approach was developed and shared within a growing international network of Universities and Research Institutions from five Mediterranean countries.

The wolf behind the house

Between 2020 and 2021, thanks to the activities of the National Wolf Monitoring, coordinated by ISPRA, a small portion of the Monte Pisano massif was subjected to investigation, thanks also to the contribution of local associations that provided personnel with knowledge of the area.

European Maritime Forum

The event aims to present the Blue Economy and in particular its target sectors such as: fishing and aquaculture, tourism, logistics and transport, renewable energy will therefore be the main assets, always with the aim of tending towards processes of approach to sustainability and circularity.

Birdwatching days in the Delta del Po

Projects and actions for the conservation, relaunch and promotion of the Delta Po nature
A programmatic discussion on the Emilia-Romagna Po Delta area and its extraordinary ornithological, naturalistic and fruition values, with the newly updated version of the dossier The occasion of the Delta produced by Lipu, with ideas, issues and possible projects. Objective: to start the work for an operational program  of the Delta of Po nature, also in light of the historical moment which is in many ways particularly propitious, in order to give this extraordinary place the future it deserves.

The return of the wolf and the future of large predators in Europe

In recent years, numerous studies have analyzed the increase of the wolf population in the Italian peninsula and its return to the Alps.
The Bioparco Foundation of Rome and the Embassy of Switzerland in Italy will organize a scientific conference with leading Swiss and Italian experts on the subject. The purpose of the conference will be to share the experiences and results of national and cross-border research on the wolf and its return.

Launch of an external review of the draft of the document "Nature futures framework and methodological guidance"

IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Plaftorm on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) has announced the launch of an external review of the draft of the "Nature futures framework and methodological guidance" document.

NET SCIENCE TOGETHER: Scientists for a day!

Around the ISPRA laboratories alongside researchers who study and protect the sea
ISPRA with the National Research Council - Institute for BioEconomy, thanks to a partnership that "unites and unites" most of the scientific research of Livorno, organizes the European Night of Researchers and Researchers, in collaboration with: Interuniversity Center of Marine Biology and Applied Ecology - CIBM, Aplysia, Harbor Master's Office, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and LaMMA Consortium and with the involvement of institutions and stakeholders of the city.

NET SCIENZAINSIEME brings you aboard the Astrea ship

Also this year NET Scienza Insieme virtually brings the public into their research facilities. After the Castel Romano Laboratories, board the Astrea, the research vessel of ISPRA.
In this virtual visit  will be possible to learn about the main research activities of the Institute on the marine environment and its ecosystems, carried out during the campaigns at sea, thanks to professionalism and cutting-edge technological tools, described by short videos that will accompany the virtual visit.

Welcome on board of the Astrea ship

The best practice green

The third edition of the event "The best practice green" will take place on 24 and 25 September 2021, where Italian and foreign entrepreneurs and institutional representatives meet. The focus of the event, dedicated to "trees and landscape", emphasizes the issues of economic development from the point of view of green and environmental operators. The 2021 edition also sees the involvement of the students of the II level Master of the University of Perugia "Management of the works of environmental protection of the green".

ISPRA is launching the new comics of the INDICT project on the "Carrie" sea turtle at the European Researchers' Night

The protection of the marine environment and its biodiversity, the threats of pollution and waste at sea are the central theme of the new comic developed by ISPRA within the exhibition for the INDICIT project.
The sea turtle Carrie is the protagonist of a new story, the adventure of a courageous creature and the dangers it encounters among abandoned plastic and microplastic nets.
The comic will be exhibited for the first time at the European Researchers' Night on 24 and 25 September at the Città dell'Altra Economia in Rome as part of the NET ScienzaInsieme project.

The ecological beach of Favignana for environmental protection and conscious tourism

The entire initiative is organized in collaboration with the Aegadian Islands Protected Marine Area and is part of the MED Dé.Co.U. Plages project co-financed under the IEV CT Italy-Tunisia 2014-2020 European program which aims to create the conditions for greater protection of the environment in coastal territories.
A full calendar of events and activities that will take place mainly on the beach of Praia and at the bathhouse plant of the Tonnare di Favignana and Formica.
These include circular economy initiatives and Citizen Science which will involve tourists, fishermen and local businesses / artisans as well as the inevitable environmental education activities to raise awareness of young and old on environmental issues.

Marine alien species: which of these have you ever observed or fished?

The booklet, produced by ISPRA, provides support to sea operators and users for the recognition of alien species observable and fishable in our seas, including some dangerous for human health as toxic to consumption or poisonous to contact.

NET - SCIENZA TOGETHER: Tor Caldara: an itinerary between geology, environment and history

The Tor Caldara Nature Reserve extends for 44 hectares in a non-urbanized stretch of coast between Anzio and Lavinio, 60 km south of Rome. Inside there is a sixteenth-century watchtower placed in a dense tangle of Mediterranean scrub, a rare testimony of the ancient coastal forests along the coast of southern Lazio. From a geological point of view, the Tor Caldara solfatara is linked to the secondary activity of the Lazio volcanic district