LIFE Conceptu Maris: the balance of the summer of sightings
Over the summer, over 40 scientists from LIFE Conceptu Maris, together with dozens of volunteers, embarked in the central and western Mediterranean on the ferries of the main shipping companies, transformed for the occasion into floating laboratories for open sea research. And while their binoculars scanned the horizon in search of cetaceans, turtles and sea birds, in the engine room of a selected number of boats, water samples were collected for chemical and environmental DNA analysis
The data collected shows a high frequency of fin whales, sighted especially in the Pelagos Sanctuary between Italy and France during the summer.
ISPRA is partner of the Project LIFE Conceptu Maris