24/11/2014 - Some preliminary work has started for the habitat restoration of Southern riparian galleries and thickets of Montecristo. Researchers at the University of Florence have collected samples of oleander (Nerium oleander) near the island of Capraia; the samples will be analyzed using genetic techniques and compared with specimens of …
24.10.2014 – Researchers from Florence University have undertaken a primary survey on the beach of Lacona, in the municipality of Capoliveri. Technicians carried out natural conservation surveys using aerial photographs and GPS tools; they accurately identified and marked off the protected areas and mapped the invasive alien species found in …
23.10.2104 –A meeting was held on the Island of Elba with the representative of the independent monitoring group, Dr Chiara Caccamo, and the various partners of the Life+RESTO CON LIFE Project: Tuscan Archipelago National Park (PNAT), Italian Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Florence University and the Forest …
27.09.2014 – A survey was carried out of the Pianosa Scopoli’s shearwater colony at Punta Brigantina to check the nest contents before the young shearwaters flew the nest. Nest monitoring has highlighted the fact that the successful reproduction of shearwater pairs stands at around 20%. The nesting sites in which …
01.07.2014 – The first ex ante wildlife monitoring of the reproductive success of the Scopoli’s shearwater at Punta Brigantina and of the abundance of the Pianosa common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis insulanica) along the transects located in the eastern part of the island has been undertaken.
Sometimes discoveries happen by chance, when they are least expected and when certainties have opened up other avenues. This occurred at Pianosa, an island of the Tuscan Archipelago, where a workgroup for the Life project co-financed by the European Commission found some surprising evidence: the hare population, although a result …
