SCOPRITARTA - The second edition ends!

On May 30 will be the award ceremony of the Sicilian schools winners of the environmental education programme "Scopri-Tarta", coordinated for Sicily by the Free Consortium of Agrigento in the framework of the E3 action of the Tartalife project.

Classes belong to the primary and secondary schools of the provinces of Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Palermo, Ragusa, Syracuse, Catania, Trapani and Messina who have joined the project, presenting a hundred works on the conservation of the Caretta Caretta sea turtle and on the threats that are putting the population in the Mediterranean at serious risk of extinction, and in particular professional fishing.

The awarding of schools will take place on May 30 at 15.00 at the theater "Pirandello" of Agrigento. The event will be preceded by the release of a rescued and rehabilitated specimen in the Lampedusa Rescue Center in San Leone (morning).

Comunicato Stampa

primopremiovincitori.pdf

secondopremioscuolaprimariaclassivincitrici.pdf

secondopremioscuolasecondaria1gradoclassivincitrici.pdf

objective

reduction of sea turtle mortality in the professional fishing

project in brief

The conservation of Caretta caretta, a priority species included in App. II/IV of the Habitat Directive and protected in various international Conventions, has been representing a strategic issue for the whole Mediterranean basin, with professional fishing being the main threat for the survival of marine turtles: every year about 130000 turtles can be accidentally caught accidentally in the Mediterranean.

The project TartaLife, involving all 15 Italian regions overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, aims at reducing:
- bycatches caused by pelagic longline, bottom trawl and fixed nets by disseminating technical innovations of the fishing gears;
- post-capture mortality through trainings for fishermen and strengthening the marine turtles First Aid/Rescue Centres

TartaLife project

Life+ programme

The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental policy and legislation by co-financing pilot or demonstration projects with European added value.

LIFE began in 1992 and to date there have been four complete phases of the programme (LIFE I: 1992-1995, LIFE II: 1996-1999, LIFE III: 2000-2006 and LIFE+: 2007-2013). During this period, LIFE has co-financed some 3954 projects across the EU, contributing approximately €3.1 billion to the protection of the environment.

Life+ programme