19-04-2023
LIFE ECOREST project: restore nearly 30,000 hectares of marine habitats on the coasts of Catalonia
The main objective of the LIFE ECOREST project is to restore nearly 30,000 hectares of deep marine habitats on the coast of Catalonia in an action area of great ecological value located along the coast of Girona and Barcelona. The initiative, which will be active until 2026, will promote a series of actions in close collaboration with the scientific community, administrations and the fishing sector.
Coordinated by the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), the LIFE ECOREST program has as partners the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, the University of Barcelona, the Federation of Fishermen's Brotherhoods Girona and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and has the financial support of the LIFE Program of the European Union.
The experts Cristina Linares, Andrea Gori, Marta Pérez and Laura Baldo, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute ( IRBio) of the University of Barcelona. The UB researchers will contribute the experience in the development of marine restoration protocols acquired during the ShelfRecover projects of the BBVA Foundation and MERCES of the Horizon 2020 program, respectively led by professors Andrea Gori and Cristina Linares at the University of Barcelona.
Coordinated by the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), the LIFE ECOREST program has as partners the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, the University of Barcelona, the Federation of Fishermen's Brotherhoods Girona and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and has the financial support of the LIFE Program of the European Union.
The experts Cristina Linares, Andrea Gori, Marta Pérez and Laura Baldo, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute ( IRBio) of the University of Barcelona. The UB researchers will contribute the experience in the development of marine restoration protocols acquired during the ShelfRecover projects of the BBVA Foundation and MERCES of the Horizon 2020 program, respectively led by professors Andrea Gori and Cristina Linares at the University of Barcelona.