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The 2nd edition of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA newsletter is now available! With this edition, the project, coordinated by the Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change, seeks to review the works of this project and its partners over (...)

Within the frame of action C6.1 “Restoration of seabird habitat on islets”, the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project is currently installing artificial nests for two species of storm-petrel (Hydrobates castro and Hydrobates monteiroi), Bulwer’s petrel (Bulweria bulwerii) and Audubon’s shearwater (...)

The LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project team travelled to Corvo Island to prepare the implementation of action Pilot project for prevention, early warning and rapid response to Invasive Alien Species*. This action is being developed not only on Corvo Island, (...)

The Faial Botanic Garden has, for the first time, in cultivation, the angelica species (𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴) in its collection of native and endemic plants of the Azores. The germination tests of this species took place in the Azores Seed Bank, (...)

Under action C4.1 “Best practice for terrestrial habitats conservation”, the operational team of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project, coordinated by the Regional Secretariat for Environment and Climate Change, started the field work to manually remove the species  Hedychium gardnerianum (...)

The La Palma Biosphere Reserve, partner of LIFE IP AZORES NATURA, developed a few weeks ago a workshop aimed at the identification of invasive or potentially invasive plants, with the support of the Environment and Emergencies Department of the Cabildo (...)