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Richard Sears, a renowned researcher of blue whales, founded Mingan Island Cetacean Study (facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MICScanada, web: https://www.rorqual.com/english/home), based in Quebec, Canada, in 1979, to study marine mammals in the St. Lawrence, with an emphasis on baleen whales. This work became (...)

This week we started the survey for the flora species targeted by action C3 (Implementation of pilot works for the conservation of endemic flora) in São Jorge. On April 13th, we went looking for the aquatic fern species Isoëtes azorica (...)

Yesterday, an online meeting with the beneficiaries La Palma and SRAAC, responsible for implementing Action C11 - Design, Essay and Evaluation of Pilot Island Prevention, Early Warning and Rapid Response Operational Frameworks for Invasive Alien Species (Corvo island and La (...)

The LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project continues to monitor seabirds on the islets within the frame of actions C6.1 “Restoration of seabird habitat on islets” and D5.1 “Monitoring of terrestrial habitats, species and conservation problems”. From 20 to 21 March, (...)

During this first planting season in the new SPEA intervention area in “Mata dos Bispos”, 28,000 native plants from the Azores were placed on the ground. The planting was carried out with a variety of tree species, structuring the Laurissilva (...)

Within the scope of action C8.1 “Control and eradication of invasive alien species (IAS) of flora in terrestrial habitats” of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project, the São Jorge Natural Park team carried out the removal of Arundo donax and (...)