The LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project coordinated by the Regional Secretariat for Environment and Climate Change, in partnership with the Terceira Environmental and Climate Change Service, carried out a closed group activity to remove Cryptomeria japonica in Turfeira da Lomba.

Turfeira da Lomba is one of the eight intervention areas of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA on this island, being the intervention in this area executed within the scope of the action Best practices for terrestrial habitat restoration (C4.1). In this context, the removal of exotic species and the planting of Sphagnum will take place throughout the project in this area, in order to recover this habitat that is part of the Habitats Directive.

With the financial support of the LIFE Programme of the European Union.