LIFE WFA educational path cards

The new cards of the didactic paths dedicated to LIFE WetFlyAmphibia are downloadable from our website.

The paths are part of the Nature Trails of the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona and Campigna National Park.

Click here to see the cards.

LIFE project of the month

Our project has been selected by the Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of the Territory and the Sea as the LIFE project of the month.

You can read and download our presentation directly from the Ministry website at this link.

New folding brochure

We are very happy to present the new brochure of our project.

After a few years it seemed right to renew the graphic appearance of this product, also because thanks to your great interest in what we do, the first edition is over.

At the moment, unfortunately, we can only present it to you digitally, but we are sure that we will be able to meet very soon, deliver this new product that talks about what we do, the LIFE program and the area in which we operate, and maybe even embrace us.

The pdf of the brochure can be downloaded here.

18/10/2019 Online the good practise database of LIFE GoProFor

The LIFE GoProFor analysis of LIFE projects and the good practices (GPs) extraction and description started on January 2019. To date, 100 good practises are already inserted in the database: 79 of them are derived from Italian LIFE projects, while 21 from projects developed in other European countries (15 GPs from French projects, 4 from Greece, 1 from Spain and 1 from Slovenia).

At the moment there are 3 good practices deriving from our LIFE Wetflyamphibia which are part of this important LIFE project that aims to "distil" the good forest management practices from LIFE projects selected at European level:

- Ex-situ reproduction protocol of the Apennine yellow-bellied toad (Bombina pachypus) and restocking of the species in suitable sites

- Egg translocation techniques for restocking of northern spectacled salamander (Salamandrina perspicillata)

- Techniques for creating wetlands for forest amphibians: Bombina pachypus and Triturus carnifex

Visit the database and discover all the good practices collected so far!

04/09/2019 SEH2019 European Congress of Herpetology

Today we presented our project at te XX European Congress of Herpetology in Milan to Societas Europaea Herpetologica experts coming from all over Europe.

It was a privilege and a real pleasure to be able to compare and share experiences talking about the actions we are carrying out in the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona and Campigna National Park.

Networking

NETWORKING EVENT

The two LIFE projects TritoMontseny an Auenamphibien came to visit us on 29, 30 and 31 of August.

A wonderful experience of growth and sharing of experiences between projects aimed at the conservation of amphibians throughout Europe.

The LIFE TritoMontseny project takes place in Catalonia in the Parc Natural del Montseny and deals with a new rare species: the Montseny newt, an endemic species with very few known presence stations.

The LIFE Auenamphibien project deals with the conservation of different species of amhibiansin danger in central-northern Europe lowlands.

Visiting the interventions in the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona and Campigna Nationala Park , together with the representatives of these two projects, we were able to observe with great joy the presence of individuals of Apennine yellow-bellied toad reintroduced by the project, a clear sign of the effectiveness of the actions we are carrying forward!

25/06/2019 Read the Aquatic Notebook

Read the story of "Clara in search of the lost plant". Our educational notebook, distributed in the schools that participated in our educational project, can be downloaded in pdf format, along with many other products of the project, directly to this link.

06/06/2019 Final event with schools

On June 4th and 6th (in Valbonella and Metaleto respectively) the final event of the educational project of LIFE WETFLYAMPHIBIA was held. More than 200 stidents of kindergarten, primary and middle school attended the event called "A Park for you", organized by the Foreste Casentinesi National Park in collaboration withCarabinieri Forestali and the LIFE ESC360 project. Lastly, the children witnessed the release of 106 metamorphosed yellowbelly toad in the troughs specially built for them.

19/04/2019 Excursion with the school of Castel Focognano

The V classes of Castel Focognano primary school visited the Stradelli intervention site in the Foreste Casentinesi National Park accompanied by DREAm Italia and OROS. The surprise was great when the first tenants were spotted in the new fountain, built last year by the workers of the Union of Municipalities of the Casentino, toad eggs and tadpoles, tadpoles and mountain frog eggs, dragonfly larva a crested newt! Our LIFE Project is giving its contribution to conservation in the Natura 2000 network sites.