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With 87 works, of which 84 in the drawing category and 3 in the comics category, the MEDSEA Foundation's Terre D’Acqua 2022 Competition ends. The school contest took place from February to March 2022 and it was organized within the Maristanis project in the municipalities involved in the project.
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This is the year of relaunch for the La Fiera dell’agricoltura di Arborea (Agricultural Fair of Arborea), one of the most important thematic fairs in Sardinia that promotes the productive, agro and livestock sector of Sardinia, an unmissable event for professionals and not only, organized by the Municipality of Arborea together with local associations.
The Italian press gave ample space to the Maristanis project in recent months, the Oristanese wetlands and its most important project Maristanis were told in various national and local television reports on Italian TV. On the occasion of the World Wetlands Day on February 2
With a picture taken in the Oristanese lagoons representing a group of flamingos and the sentence "They come / They come back / Sometimes they stop / Like nomads / In a world / That no longer belongs to us", Gabriele Espis, nature photographer from Terralba , won the MEDSEA #WWDSardegna photo contest which took place on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day from 2 to 27 February 2022.
Over 700 visitors in the World Wetlands Day collective calendar, put together by the MEDSEA Foundation, as part of the Maristanis project last February, with the aim of promoting the precious natural heritage of the Oristano wetlands on the occasion of World Wetlands Day of February 2.
As every year, the World Wetlands Day on the anniversary of the RAMSAR convention (of 1971, Feb. 2nd) calls and Sardinia, in particular the Oristanese area, replies within the Maristanis project that aims at the protection, management and enhancement of these extraordinary wetlands!
World Wetlands Day in Sardinia, from 2 to 27 February join the competition #WWDSardegna on Instagram
In the occasion of the World Wetlands Day which celebrates ponds and lagoons in the world next February 2, the MEDSEA foundation launches the contest on wetlands in Sardinia with the hashtag #WWDSardegna to raise awareness and promote these still little-known habitats.
MEDSEA foundation, which has been carrying out the Maristanis project in the Oristano area in Sardinia since 2017, attended last week the yearly meeting of the MAVA steering committee. The session took place from 16 to 17 December 2021 in Châteauneuf-le-Rouge, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, and gathered together the international partners of the M3 strategy which aims to improve the conservation of the coastal wetlands.
On February 2, the World Wetlands Day will be celebrated once again the Oristanese wetlands region. To recall the central role of wetlands in addressing climate and environmental crisis and to raise awareness of the importance of these basins especially in this west coast side of Sardinia, within the Maristanis project.
The first round of meetings of the Coastal Contract participatory process came to an end. For two months it saw the experts of the MEDSEA Foundation, on behalf of the Coordination Group, discuss in 9 meetings and over 20 hours of listening of all the institutional, economic, cultural and environmental forces operating in the Gulf of Oristano.
On October 26 began in Oristano the participatory process that has followed the birth of the Marine Coastal Wetlands Contract, a voluntary tool aimed at the development of an integrated and collective management of Natura 2000 sites of the Oristano Gulf.
The Friends of Maristanis Club is expanding! Twenty seven extra companies working in tourism and catering decided to join the network and start controlling their water consumption as well as finding ways for water saving to protect and enhance the Oristano wetlands area. 51 members e companies in total, including accommodation facilities (hotels, B&B, short let, home holidays...), restaurants, bars, tourist associations and more.
- The participatory process involving the Oristanese coastal and wetlands community kicks off
- Nurachi joins the marine coastal contract in the Oristano area
- Maristanis is now also visitmaristanis.it to promote Oristano RAMSAR wetlands
- A green oscar Coldiretti for Andrea Liverani within the Maristanis precision farming project
- Saving water in agriculture? You've got to go back to the roots...in Maristanis!
- World Wetlands Day 2021 | The winners of the Terre d'Acqua competition
- The Old Tower of Marceddì "Torre Vecchia" open its door
- World Environment Day: the Gulf of Oristano at the forefront for UN guidelines
- World Water Day: reducing water footprint in sardinian agriculture and tourism
- World Wetlands day, the winners