Istituto Superiore per la Protezione
e la Ricerca Ambientale

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Training day for the monitoring and protection of pollinators

  • When Feb 24, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 05:30 PM (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
  • Where Rome, sede ISPRA, Via V. Brancati, 48
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On Monday 24 February, a training day was held at the ISPRA conference for the technical staff of the National Parks for the implementation of the 2019 Minister of the Environment Directive on biodiversity, which provides funding to the Parks for projects to protect the pollinators in implementation of the 2018 European Pollinators Initiative. Domestic bees and wild pollinators allow pollination of more than 85% of wild plants and about 70% of agricultural crops for an economic value calculated in Italy of approximately 2 billion euros per year. The projects that have designed the National Parks in line with the Directive, foresee the monitoring and the collection of data for the knowledge of the presence, the state of the populations, the threats and the possible decline of the pollinators in their territory; interventions to curb their decline, limiting the causes of the use of plant protection products, of agronomic practices that leave no habitat for these species. During the day, organized by Ministry of the Environment, Federparchi and the University of Turin, the methodologies shared at European level were presented, also tested in the course of projects that ISPRA is coordinating, on the monitoring of bees, wild apoidea, bombids and butterflies in order to obtain data from the Parks that are comparable over time also with those detected in other European countries. These methodologies were also experimented during a project aimed at testing the measures of the PAN for the protection of biodiversity that ISPRA is carrying out, in collaboration with ARPA Piemonte, University of Torino and Roma 2 Tor vergata.

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