SAVE THE DATE! On May 6th in Pavia, LifeDrylands will be discussed at the TEDxPavia event. The title of the event is BLIND, a truly fascinating interpretation… “… to access deeper meanings sometimes you need to close your eyes, others times, on the contrary, you have to finally open them! …” What does LifeDrylands have to do with it? At …
Today at Trecate site it was a very very good day! Not only for the blu sky and for the early spring sun. A good day, because we planted 600 plants, typical of the Habitat 6210 dry areas; a good day, because with us there was a group of “environmental” volunteers of Trecate Municipality and three universitary students that are …
Great work in these days on S. Antonio Island! The challenge continues: restoration ex novo of Habitat 6210, the arid prairie, in an area where it was not present before. We are in ZSC IT1180027 – Confluenza Po-Sesia-Tanaro. We have already told you about the preparatory intervention for “opening” the area, remove invasive woody species, work and level the ground. …
TODAY 06th July 2021 – 9:30 – 16:30 The first Networking meeting between LifeDrylands and 6 LIFE projects! Main goals of the Life Drylands project, led by the University of Pavia (Italy), are: restoring, preserving and increasing the environmental biodiversity in dry acidophilic grasslands and heathlands of lowland in Piedmont and Lombardy Regions (Habitats 2330, 4030, 6210/6210*). The project aims …
Monitoring actions ended in a beautiful moor that presents itself in autumn version!
Il LifeDrylands in diretta a Radio Lombardia. Monica Stefinlongo intervista Silvia Assini, per parlare di brughiere, habitat e biodiversità nel programma #mattinolombardia
The world of lichens is simply fascinating! They lives, often unnoticed, also in some dry areas of our project. Meanwhile, if you want to know more…a very interesting article has recently been published in the scientific journal Biodiversity and Conservation, titled: “Biodiversity and conservation of terricolous lichens and bryophytes in continental lowlands of northern Italy: the role of different dry habitat …
Thanks to Raffaella Amelotti for this beautiful description of our project on the website Piemonteparchi.it. Click here to read the article.
On this very hot day at the end of July, the summer monitoring of the LifeDrylands concluded, with the last survey of the vegetation and the last sampling of the Lepidoptera in the H4030. The work was carried out by a joint UniBO-UniPV team. Here you can see some pictures from this day, at the areas of intervention of Lenta-Rovasenda …
Silvia Assini present the LifeDrylands project during the programm of Laura Bettini “Si può fare”, at Radio24.The .