The PNRR for National Parks and Marine Protected Areas
Activities to strengthen technological instrumentation to improve knowledge on biodiversity are underway
National Parks and Marine Protected Areas have consistently carried out important monitoring work for years which today allows the entire scientific community to have a significant knowledge base on biodiversity. However, monitoring activities, in particular those on species and habitats, present heterogeneous characteristics and do not allow the availability of uniform and integrated information in the medium-long term for the entire system of protected areas.
As part of the implementation of the PNRR, the specific Measure M2C4 Inv. 3.2 Digitalisation of national parks and marine protected areas, of the Mission "Ecological transition and green revolution", owned by the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security ( MASE), aims to establish standardized and digitalized procedures for the modernization, efficiency and effective functioning of protected areas. In particular, the sub-investment relating to Nature Conservation - monitoring of pressures and threats on species and habitats and climate change, with an economic endowment of 82 thousand euros, aims to strengthen technological instruments with the aim of improving and expanding the knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services of national protected areas in a coordinated manner. This is a specific intervention for the monitoring of wildlife species, habitats of community interest and pressures on ecosystems, through innovative and traditional methods. The sub-investment will therefore allow the activation of an innovative national monitoring infrastructure based on consistent data collection methods for the identification of more effective measures for the conservation of protected species and habitats. ISPRA is called upon to carry out the technical-scientific coordination of the Measure, while INVITALIA provides support to MASE. The monitoring data collected by the National Parks will be appropriately processed by ISPRA and made available through the technical infrastructure of the National Biodiversity Network (NNB) according to international sharing standards.