The "Wetlands and Coastal Zones Contract" family is growing: with a resolution of the Municipal Council, the municipality of Nurachi has decided to become part of the integrated governance tool that is already composed by the municipalities of Arborea, Arbus, Cabras, Guspini, Oristano, Palmas Arborea, Riola Sardo, San Vero Milis, Santa Giusta and Terralba, from the Sardinia Region, the Province of Oristano and the Oristano Reclamation Consortium. The “Wetlands and Coastal Zones Contract” was officially signed in Oristano on February 5, 2021. Borrowed from the experience of the "River Contracts", operating in various Italian and European contexts, the accord represents the overcoming of fragmentation in decision-making processes concerning marine areas, transition areas of ponds and marshes, water basins, institutions and populations that make up the territory. A unique laboratory in the Mediterranean basin, made possible by five years of assiduous work within the Maristanis Project, which the MEDSEA Foundation, thanks to the MAVA Foundation support, has been carrying out since 2017.
Five years of actions focused on the conservation and sustainable development of the six Ramsar sites, wetlands protected by the 1971 homonymous convention, have woven a web of relationships between the sectors of scientific research and education, fisheries and agriculture, crafts and culture. The constant collaboration with the municipalities hosting the Ramsar sites naturally resulted in the will to jointly develop a model of common administration of the extraordinary environmental heritage that characterizes the Gulf of Oristano, one of the areas most affected in the Mediterranean basin by climate change.
The 8000 hectares covered by the six Ramsar sites and the 267 km2 of the “Sinis Peninsula - Mal di Ventre Island Marine Protected Area”, home to an extraordinary multitude of floral and fauna species, will henceforth be governed by a Coast Assembly, constituted by the signatories and open to constant collaboration with all subjects, public and private, who wish to contribute to the construction of a future where environmental conservation and human activities are no longer in conflict, but in harmony.
Terre D'Acqua 2022, the winners of the school contest within the Maristanis Project
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…
The Sardinian farms met in Arborea under the sign of Sustainability
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…
Maristanis in the news: Rai and Italia 1 dedicated ample space to the Maristanis Project
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…
The winner of the World Wetlands Day in Sardinia 2022 Contest
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 /…
Over 700 visitors for the World Wetlands Day Calendar
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…
The World Wetlands Day 2022 in Sardinia lasts a month, the events Calendar
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…
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…
MAVA Steering Committee in Provence: Sardinia was promoted with the Maristanis project
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…
Terre d'Acqua, a wetlands school competition for students in the Oristanese
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…
Coastal Contract Maristanis: from the participatory process comes the idea of a Regional Park for the Sardinian wetlands.
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…
Together to build a different future: listening to the voices of the Oritano Gulf
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 expands: more than 50 enterprises together for the protection of the wetlands
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…
The participatory process involving the Oristanese coastal and wetlands community kicks off
Starting from October 26th, and until the beginning of May 2022, the experts of the MEDSEA Foundation will begin a participatory process to meet and discuss with everybody representing the…
Nurachi joins the marine coastal contract in the Oristano area
The "Wetlands and Coastal Zones Contract" family is growing: with a resolution of the Municipal Council, the municipality of Nurachi has decided to become part of the integrated governance tool…
Maristanis is now also visitmaristanis.it to promote Oristano RAMSAR wetlands
Il progetto Maristanis da oggi è anche visitmaristanis.it Terre d’acqua in Sardegna, il nuovo sito che promuove gli itinerari naturalistici, culturali ed enogastronomici degli 11 comuni aderenti al progetto Maristanis, un’iniziativa della Fondazione MEDSEA che…
A green oscar Coldiretti for Andrea Liverani within the Maristanis precision farming project
A pioneering award for saving water resources in agriculture: the national Coldiretti Green Oscar has been won by Andrea Liverani, a young drone pilot and partner, together with Coldiretti Oristano…
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