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The Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change, through the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project, joined the initiative International Bat Night, with a night activity on each island of the Azores. This initiative aimed to raise awareness of bat (...)

On 2, 5 and 6 September, the LIFE IPA AZORES NATURA project received, on the islands of São Miguel and Santa Maria, its 5th monitoring visit aimed at evaluating the development of the project, which will enter its fifth year (...)

The Madeira Lizard (𝘛𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘢 𝘥𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘪) is a species introduced in the Azores that presents invasive behaviour. Several studies named it as one of the greatest predators of eggs and broods of seabirds, thus becoming quite problematic on our islets, where (...)

Within the framework of action C3.2 "In-situ conservation" of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project, which foresees the improvement of the conservation status of endemic flora species in their natural 𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵 by reinforcing existing populations, a shade house was build (...)

The LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project confirmed the existence of a population of the endemic and protected species 𝘐𝘴𝘰𝘦̈𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘻𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, on the island of Flores, of which there was already a historical record, within the scope of Action C3.1 (Ex-situ (...)

The Ilhéu da Vila (islet9 is one of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project's intervention areas. Here occur endemic flora species of the region and significant colonies of sea birds nest, such as the Barolo Shearwater (𝘗𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘪 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘪), the (...)