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LIFE ShepForBio project kick-off conference
On Thursday 3 November, starting at 9 a.m. in Santa Sofia (FC), the initial conference of the LIFE ShepForBio project will be held. The event will be held as part of the Oltreterra new economy for the mountains event, a...
Orthoptera monitoring concluded
September was the last of three months in which field surveys were conducted to collect data on insects belonging to the order Orthoptera, which includes the species of animals commonly known as crickets, grasshoppers and locusts. The grassland habitats covered...
LIFE ShepForBio at the National Agronomy Conference
Our LIFE project was presented at the 51st National Conference of the Italian Society of Agronomy held in Padua, Italy, a few days ago. Special thanks go to the lecturers and researchers of the Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and...
Looking through the grass: the floristic surprises of pastures
Why do we need to preserve semi-natural grasslands? Can we not let the forest recolonise them? These are complex questions that have no simple answers but considerations of the costs and benefits of various conservation options. We must therefore start...
