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biodiversity
04/03/2019High urbanization and intensive agriculture are worryingly fragmenting natural habitats, not allowing species to move around in their environment. This is a widespread condition in different areas of the Po Valley, which undermines the delicate balance between nature and human activities. To stop...+ Read moreEducating
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05/03/2018After two years, the Impollina-MI project has come to an end. During the project period we and our partners committed to encourage citizenship towards theoretical and practical activities aimed at favouring the presence of butterflies and other pollinating insects in the city of Milan.Supp...+ Read moreEducating
for sustainable
development05/03/2018After two years, the Impollina-MI project has come to an end. During the project period we and our partners committed to encourage citizenship towards theoretical and practical activities aimed at favouring the presence of butterflies and other pollinating insects in the city of Milan.Supp...+ Read morePreserving
biodiversity
12/12/2016Excellent news from Brussels: the fitness check of the EU Bird and Habitat Directives ended with a clearly positive assessment. As a result, both Directives will not be neither rewritten ...+ Read morePreserving
biodiversity
24/11/2016The field studies carried out by the project researchers confirmed that the Oltrepò Pavese constitutes a paradise for butterflies. Only in Oltrepò the community of butterflies consists of 122 species, a...+ Read morePreserving
biodiversity
09/03/2015Implemented thanks to the contribution of the Cariplo Foundation, the project has led to a feasibility study designing a local ecological network between the Adda and Lambro rivers, passing through the Monte Barro Park.Ecological netwo...+ Read morePreserving
biodiversity
20/01/2015After the first year of work the Ambrosiano project has given its first results. They represents the basis for designing the final feasiblity study, which will list the needed actions meant to improve the ecological connectivity between Ticino Park and Alto Milanese Park. ...+ Read morePreserving
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29/10/2014With the end of summer the monitoring of flora and fauna in the wetlands of the Groane Park ended as well. The findings have been presented to the public on October 28th, 2014 at the Park’s headquarters. THE IMPORTAN...+ Read morePreserving
biodiversity
16/07/2014The new Rural Development Programme (RDP) has to take on several challenges related to the ongoing environmental and social changes and has the opportunity to do so in a sutainable and innovative way. The quality of Lombardy agriculture and farming is crucial for the presence and maintena...+ Read moreSupporting
development
cooperation
07/02/2014It was a great adventure. After the article published in December about our work in the Baringo area (Kenya), we have not spoken anymore because we started a hard work and we literally disappeared inside Mau forest. MAU FOREST: BEAUTIFUL AND THREATENED...+ Read morePreserving
biodiversity
07/01/2014It is widely recognised that one of the major threats to biodiversity conservation is habitat fragmentation. Even the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN) asserts that an approach based only on protected areas is not enough to guarantee an effective preservation of speci...+ Read morePreserving
biodiversity
05/11/2013A year has passed since the beginning of the project and we can display the first positive results, especially regarding the protection of one of the last Alpine wild rivers, the Tagliamento. Today the Tagliamento is less lonely than one year ago; in fact, thanks...+ Read morePreserving
biodiversity
10/07/2013It is widely recognised that one of the main threats to species and habitat conservation is fragmentation. Even the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) confirms that the protected-area approach is constraining because it does not allow a real connection among species...+ Read more