Save the date: 20 September Tartalife Final Meeting

The final TartaLife conference will be held on Friday, September 20 at the Seebay Hotel in Portonovo (AN). All the project partners who will illustrate the activities carried out and the results achieved in these 6 years of the project will participate. In addition there will be some representatives of local authorities, fishermen and also various experts on the theme of sea turtles conservation.

We have reached the end of a long and full of successes and satisfactions, which will end at the Seebay Hotel in Portonovo. The activities of Tartalife will be carried out even after this date, which in any case represents an important day of celebration and sharing. Several were the results and successes achieved in 6 years. What better location to share them with everyone if not in Portonovo?

Find attached Final Meeting Agenda.

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