Azorean lakes have lost regional biodiversity over the last 40 years

Every lake is a miniature universe: it is a space with its own temperature and salinity, in which particular flora and fauna live and certain microorganisms develop. Thanks to their diverse nature, lakes make the ecosystems to which they belong more resilient and provide society with numerous benefits, such as water cycle regulation. However, lakes are also the backdrop to many human activities and are severely exposed to global warming.

CitiObs project seeks alliances with citizen science initiatives to strengthen environmental monitoring in European cities

Citizen science initiatives are increasingly valuable for monitoring the environmental health of cities. The European project CitiObs seeks to forge partnerships with up to 30 citizen observatories to make their impact transcend borders and make their observations more reliable and accessible for political action and decision-making at local, national and global levels.

2024 | Nov 11 - Nov 11
9:00 - 15:00
Citizen science Eng
Onsite
Casa Convalescència - Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Enhancing Biodiversity Monitoring in Catalonia with Citizen Science – AD4GD Workshop

PNIN Albera
Project / Initiative
Others
Inactive

Catalog of endangered and protected flora and fauna of Albera PNIN

Port Lligat
Project / Initiative
Others
Inactive

Creation of a poster about endangered and protected flora of Cap de Creus

FenoRural
Project / Initiative
National projects
Active

Promoting phenological observation in rural areas

The extinction of 1,300 bird species in the next 200 years could cause the loss of key ecological functions

Published today in the journal Science and led by the University of Birmingham (UK) and CREAF, a new study has delved into the past and future of bird extinctions worldwide, going back to when humans first appeared, 130,000 years ago. Since then, according to the study, at least 610 species of birds have vanished, almost all of them as a result of human activities, and more than twice as many — another 1,305 — could die out in the next two centuries alone.