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  • Restoration of Alluvial Forests...
    and Cladium mariscus habitats
    in Ramsar and Natura 2000 sites
  • A Forest is being reborn
    Participate in the LIFE FORESTALL project initiatives in defense of biodiversity

The LIFE FORESTALL Project

LIFE FORESTALL  has received funding from the LIFE Programme of the European Union.

CORILA is the Coordinating beneficiary. Project Associated beneficiaries and partners are: Provveditorato Interregionale per le Opere Pubbliche per il Veneto, Trentino Alto Adige e Friuli Venezia Giulia, SELC Soc. coop., WWF Oasi, Cooperativa Sociale Primavera ONLUS.

The project area is the WWF Oasis of Valle Averto (southern lagoon of Venice), 78 hectares owned by WWF Italia. The WWF Oasis of Valle Averto is located within two Natura 2000 sites and within a site included in the list of “Wetlands of International Importance” according to the Ramsar Convention. Anthropic pressures and climate changes put the specific biodiversity of this environment at risk and active protection actions are necessary to preserve it.
LIFE FORESTALL in fact has, as its main objective, the restoration and conservation of habitat 7210* Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus and species of the Caricion davallianae and habitat 91E0* Alluvial forests of Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior, both priority according to the Habitat Directive (1992/43/EEC).

It also aims to contain some invasive exotic species such as tree and shrub plants Robinia pseudoacacia and Baccharis halimifolia and Silurus glanis (catfish).

 

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Project numbers

4 years
Project duration

4 years 9 months: duration of the project (10/2019 - 06/2024)

78 ha.
Project Area

78 ha: extension of the project area

1805433 Euro
Total project budget

1.805.433 Euro: Total project budget

1344941 Euro
EU contribution

1.344.941 Euro (=74,7% of total eligible budget)

14300 seedlings
habitat 7210*

10.000 new seedlings of Cladium m. e 4300 herb seedlings to extend the 7210* habitat

6,19 ha.
habitat 7210*

7210* habitat extended from 0.03 to 6.19 hectares

24400 seedlings
habitat 91E0*

16300 tree and shrub seedlings, 8100 herb seedlings to extend the 91E0* habitat

11,60 ha.
habitat 91E0*

91E0* habitat extended from 1.25 to 11.60 hectares

Preparatory Actions

Preparatory Actions

Conservation Actions

Conservation Actions

Monitoring Actions

Monitoring Actions

Dissemination Actions

Dissemination Actions

Project Management Actions

Project Management Actions

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WWF Oasis of Valle Averto

Wetland of International Importance

 

The project area is the WWF Oasis of Valle Averto (in the southern part of the Venice Lagoon), 78 ha. owned by the WWF Italia.

That area is located within two Natura 2000 sites and within a site included in the list of “Wetlands of International Importance” according to the Ramsar Convention.

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