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On November 18 and 19, 2021, at the Live Fish Station - Porto Pim Aquarium, the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change hosted an innovative project to tag loggerhead turtles (𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘢) with state-of-the-art satellite transmitters. This initiative (...)

It was detected, for the first time, the existence of a highly invasive species – the 𝘗𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘢 (or commonly known as 𝘬𝘶𝘥𝘻𝘶) – on the island of São Miguel. It is a climbing plant native of Asia and some (...)

Within the scope of the 4th LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project monitoring visit, a group of European Union's supervisors travelled this week to the islands of São Miguel and Graciosa to evaluate the project's progress. The visit counted with the (...)

The Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change has been developing a set of works in the collection of seeds and propagation of the respective endemic species, thus contributing to the preservation of the Azorean biodiversity. The LIFE IP (...)

The “Congas” or “False-ginger” (Hedychium spp.) are among the 50 most dangerous exotic species of Macaronesia (Silva et al., 2008). This plant constitutes a huge threat both in the Azores and Madeira, due to their rhizomes (a stem capable of (...)

Celebrated every year on the third Saturday of September, this date aims to create awareness on the population to the problem of marine litter in the oceans and its impact on marine biodiversity. Thus, the Regional Secretariat for the Environment (...)