The October issue of the French speaking Newsletter ‘Lettre des Lagunes’ by Pôle relais lagunes méditerranéennes is now online. To access it viisit the website of Pôle relais and navigate to Actualités / Lettres des Lagunes Source: Pere Tomas Vives, Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat Updated on 10/30/2006 2:50:04 PM.
Archive for October, 2006
The next Conference of the Water Directors of the Euro-Mediterranean and Southeastern European Countries will take place in Athens (Greece), on 6 & 7 November 2006. The Conference is organized by Greece, the lead country of the Mediterranean component of the EU Water Initiative (Med-EUWI) in cooperation with the European Commission, the ‘Euro-Mediterranean Information System [...]
The work of the MedWet CODDE project – MedWet information and knowledge network for the sustainable development of wetland ecosystems was presented at the Globwetland Symposium, 19-20 October, Rome, Italy. Delivered by Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Researcher at the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing National Observatory of Athens, Greece the presentation looked at developing a [...]
The International Scientific Task Force on Avian Influenza has produced an 8-page brochure, Avian Influenza and Wild Birds, aimed at the public on the state of scientific information about the spread of avian flu, particularly with regards to wild birds and wetland habitats. The Task Force is composed of AEWA, the UNEP African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement; [...]
The Croatian State Institute for Nature Protection (SINP) carried out a comprehensive wetland inventory to create a reference database for further planning and protected area designation use. This project accomplished for the first time a comprehensive overview of Croatian wetlands identifying 3883 individual sites. Altogether 390,885 hectares of wetland habitats and 56,516 km of watercourses [...]
