2nd Edition of the environmental education project SCOPRITARTA

Published the call for the 2nd Edition of the Environmental Education Project reserved for students of the 3rd, 4th and 5th classes of the Primary School and 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes of Secondary School of First Degree of the Sicilian Region.

The project aims to give students a knowledge of the dangers threatening the species Caretta Caretta now endangered and aims to inform, raise awareness and actively engage children in a didactic-educational process aimed at bringing them closer to the knowledge of this species and the dangers threaten it with particular reference to commercial fishing with particular regard to the sustainable and measures concretely feasible to ensure these adequate animal protection measures. Participation is completely free.

Please read carefully the attached documentation.

manifesto_70x100.pdf

scheda_di_partecipazione.pdf

sintesi_progetto.pdf

bando2ed_scopritarta.pdf

objective

reduction of sea turtle mortality in the professional fishing

project in brief

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