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SCOPRITARTA: Bando di concorso progetto di educazione ambientale

Un percorso didattico riservato agli alunni delle scuole primarie e secondarie di primo grado della Sicilia
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Great success of TARTALIFE in the Researcher Night Event

Great success for the night of researchers aboard the research vessel G. Dallaporta, which also hosted the project TARTALIFE.
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TartaLife participates in the Researchers Night

Ancona, 25 September. It is the night of European researchers. It will be the occasion to present TartaLife.
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TartaLife mets the fishing fleet of Ancona

TARTALIFE project continues its travel along the Marche region for enhancing and stimulating fishermen participation in safeguarding marine turtles.
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Workshop “Best practices for the protection of the marine environment: the contribution of EU LIFE projects

20 Octber – Conference Room, Pavilion Expo Venice
By the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea - Department SVI.
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Tartalife meets the Adriatic-Mediterranean Festival

Sea turtle Francesco rescued at Fondazione Cetacea center was released. The Adriatic-Mediterranean festival supported this event.
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Great success of Tartaday in Province of Agrigento

Success of Tartaday in Province of Agrigento (TARTALIFE partners), with a significant involvement of swimmers and tourists in the dissemination and entertainment activities.
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New births in Agrigento

We communicate the good news of Caretta caretta eggs hatching in Agrigento in the Zingarello area. The information was circulated by some swimmers who were at the beach.
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Save the date: August 22 is the day of TARTADAY

August 22 is a big party! It celebrates the Tarta-Day, the national day dedicated to the sea turtle Caretta caretta. The initiative promoted by TartaLife, starring many rescue centers operating across the peninsula: from the Marche to Sicily through Puglia and Sardinia.
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Let's go with TED on commercial scale (Action C2)

In July, the diffusion phase of the TED on a commercial scale is started. The researchers of CNR-ISMAR Ancona chose the fleet of Civitanova Marche as a starting point for this activity.

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