Press Release: REPOSIDONIA Protecting the forests of the sea

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iSea is launching a collaboration with Blue Marine Foundation to protect the precious seagrass meadows in Greek waters by expanding the REPOSIDONIA project in three new areas:

1. East Lemnos,
2. Nisyros
3. Formicula island (Inner Ionian Archipelago).

The project will focus on increasing the scientific knowledge about the distribution, the coverage, the biodiversity, and the health of the meadows as well as estimating the Blue Carbon potential of selected meadows. Finally, through the project, iSea will educate and inform decision-makers, responsible for target management actions for these habitats in each area.

Training seminar in Zakynthos

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As part of the “Know-Participate-Protect the Environment” project, iSea and The Green Tank invite you to a training seminar on “Citizens’ participation in environmental policy-making – Recent developments in tackling biodiversity loss” aimed at enhancing citizen participation in public debates and decision-making on environmental issues.

 

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Training seminar in Patra

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As part of the “Know-Participate-Protect the Environment” project, iSea and The Green Tank invite you to a training seminar on “Citizens’ participation in environmental policy-making – Recent developments in tackling marine plastic pollution” aimed at enhancing citizen participation in public debates and decision-making on environmental issues. Read more

Training seminar in Thessaloniki

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As part of the “Know-Participate-Protect the Environment” project, iSea and The Green Tank invite you to a training seminar on “Citizens’ participation in environmental policy-making – Recent developments in tackling biodiversity loss” aimed at enhancing citizen participation in public debates and decision-making on environmental issues. Read more

Mass strandings of Cuvier’s beaked whale in Corfu islan

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Unfortunately, it seems that the initial incident of the two Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) that were stranded in the NW of Corfu will end in mass strandings. Yesterday (20/02/2022), two individuals were found in Arilla beach and Agios Gordios, while this morning, another larger individual was stranded in Agios Gordios as well with it’s survival chances being ambivalent. Read more

New publication about angel sharks in the Aegean

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Angel sharks are among the most threatened species of sharks globally. In the Mediterranean Sea, three species are present; Squatina aculeata, Squatina oculata, and Squatina squatina, all listed as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species due to the steep decline of their populations as a result of their overexploitation by fisheries.

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New published work highlights the importance of Citizen Science in monitoring the spread of invasive species in the Mediterranean Sea.

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New published work highlights the importance of Citizen Science in monitoring the spread of invasive species in the Mediterranean Sea.

This study focuses on 5 non-indigenous species (the annelid Branchiomma luctuosum, the shrimp Saron marmoratus and the fish Lutjanus argentimaculatus, Oxyurichthys petersii, and specimens of the group of Abudefduf saxatilis/vaigiensis/troschelii) and one neo-native species (Seriola fasciata) in Greece and Cyprus.

The work comes to revise and update their known distribution in the invaded areas, thus contributing to the study of largescale and well-defined distributional patterns of alien species spreading in the Mediterranean Sea. Read more