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Whilst travelling around the island by boat to carry out a census of terns in June of this year, a Park Ranger from the Santa Maria Environment and Climate Change Service (Santa Maria ECCS) spotted some plants that appeared to (...)

On 14 September, we celebrate Ecology Day, and with it, the largest Ecology celebration in national and international territory! The Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change is joining in this celebration with activities developed through the LIFE BEETLES (...)

Within the scope of actions C6.1 – “Restoration of habitats for seabirds on the islets” and D5.1 “Monitoring of terrestrial habitats, species and conservation problems” of the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project, a team from the Portuguese Society for the (...)

The LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project, coordinated by the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change, developed in 2022 a fun card game entitled “Dobble invasoras”. This card game seeks to test the attention and reasoning ability of players (...)

Within the scope of Action E5 – “Public engagement and volunteering programme”, the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA project had initially planned to develop a citizen science application for reporting new sightings of alien and invasive flora/fauna species, wherever it was (...)

During the month of June, a team from the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), in collaboration with the Environment and Climate Change Services of Graciosa and Santa Maria, carried out some conservation work on the respective islets, (...)