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SPEA is starting the annual count of Azores bullfinch Pyrrhula murina in São Miguel. This year we should have celebrated the Priolo Atlas, with 50 volunteers counting Azores bullfinches simultaneously, but it was not possible due to the pandemic. In (...)

Our LIFE IP AZORES NATURA partner, La Palma Biosphere Reserve, has been busy with the invasion of Sticky Groundsel (Senecio viscosus) that has grown vigorously with the warm temperatures. Thousands of small seedlings are germinating and the LIFE IP Azores (...)

Action C14.1 “Integrated assessment and mitigation of the negative impacts of tourism on trails in the Natura 2000 Network” of the LIFE IP Azores Natura project foresees the installation of a pyroelectric infrared motion detector per island in order to (...)

After the consultation period for the photographs sent by the participants of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA photography contest “Let's photograph invasive species?”, which took place from May 31 to June 4, 2021, framed in the 2nd National Week and (...)

The Regional Directorate for Sea Affairs recently (26th and 27th May) sent a technical team to Praia Islet, in Graciosa, as part of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA Project, with the aim of monitoring the artificial nests of Monteiro’s storm-petrel (...)

During the past two weeks, prospecting for one of the target species of Action C3 (Implementation of pilot works for the conservation of endemic flora), the aquatic fern Isoëtes azorica, has begun on the islands of Pico and Faial. On (...)