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TartaLife and Tipicità in Blu

TartaLife will be hosted at Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, May 19 to 22, for the event Tipicità in Blu.
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Download the TartApp

Since this week is available for both Android and iOS systems the new TartApp produced by TartaLIfe project.
Let's go for download. Download is free and fun is guaranteed!
Type the word TartaLife in Google Play or AppStore!
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SCOPRITARTA: project for environmental education

Reserved for students of Primary and Secondary School
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TartaLife special guest at the Club Nautico Rimini

On January 31, the Club Nautico in Rimini hosted TartaLife project to learn all about the project. Cetacean Foundation colleagues showed the main activity of Tartalife with a presentation and various movies made during the project.
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Sea Turtles from the past

TartaLife media partner of the art project - Sea Turtles from the Past, first event 31 January, Cagliari
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Fishermen collaborate again...

Tonight, another turtle accidentally captured by otter trawl was brought by fishermen to the Ancona fish market.
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Release of 5 sea turtles

Five sea turtles (Caretta caretta) were released today, Dec. 16, by CNR-ISMAR and Fondazione Cetacea about 3 miles off the port of Ancona.
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TartaLife at the final conference of the project NetCet

TartaLife participated at the final conference of the project NetCet.
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Fishing vessel "Tirpitz" save another turtle

The fishing vessel based in the Ancona harbour deliver a Caretta caretta to rescue center
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Corso di aggiornamento per operatori dei centri di recupero per tartarughe marine

Il 14-15 Novembre 2015 presso il Centro di recupero, cura e riabilitazione di Fondazione Cetacea, V.le Torino 7/A, 47838 Riccione (RN)

The conservation of Caretta caretta, a priority species included in App. II/IV of the Habitat Directive and protected in various international Conventions, has been representing a strategic issue for the whole Mediterranean basin, with professional fishing being the main threat for the survival of marine turtles: every year about 130000 turtles can be accidentally caught accidentally in the Mediterranean.

The project TartaLife, involving all 15 Italian regions overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, aims at reducing:
- bycatches caused by pelagic longline, bottom trawl and fixed nets by disseminating technical innovations of the fishing gears;
- post-capture mortality through trainings for fishermen and strengthening the marine turtles First Aid/Rescue Centres

TartaLife project

Life+ programme

The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental policy and legislation by co-financing pilot or demonstration projects with European added value.

LIFE began in 1992 and to date there have been four complete phases of the programme (LIFE I: 1992-1995, LIFE II: 1996-1999, LIFE III: 2000-2006 and LIFE+: 2007-2013). During this period, LIFE has co-financed some 3954 projects across the EU, contributing approximately €3.1 billion to the protection of the environment.

Life+ programme