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Protection of Biodiversity of the Sava River Basin Floodplains

2 pages

This leaflet gives an overview on the LIFE project Protection of Biodiversity of the Sava River Basin Floodplains (LIFE06 TCY/INT/000246), to demonstrate innovative protection and management schemes that seek to combine viable land use practices, biodiversity protection and management and flood management.

Download: Protection of Biodiversity of the Sava River Basin Floodplains
(~233 KB)

New methods for water pollution control in river basins

8 pages, August 2001

To realise the aims of EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), knowledge of a wide area of river ecology and water pollution control methods as well as practical tools for the cost-effective integrated management and monitoring ofriver basins are needed. The RiverLife project (LIFE98 ENV/FIN/000573) presents in this publication an interactive computerbased Decision Support System, RiverLifeDSS, that helps local and regional authorities, private companies and consultants to integrate environmental considerations into land use planning and management practices in river basins.

Download: New methods for water pollution control in river basins
(~1.6 MB)

Conservation of Acipenser naccarii in the River Ticino and in the middle reach of the River Po

2007

The preservation of the landlocked population of the Adriatic sturgeon in the Ticino River was the aim of an Italian LIFE project (LIFE03 NAT/IT/000113). Three publications present the project’s result and include a survey of sturgeon and other fish species; information on the autoecology, molecular genetics, reproductive and spatial behaviour; as well as the description of a sturgeon action plan drawn up by the project and adopted by the park authorities.  

Download: Il pigo - Rutilus pigus: Studio dell’autoecologia della specie nel Fiume Ticino Pontevecchio di Magenta (MI)
(~34.5 MB)

Download: Il Siluro - Sirulus glanis: Ecologia della specie nel Fiume Ticino e risultati dell’azione di contrasto alla sua espansione svolta dal Parco negli anni 2001 - 2006
(~27.7 MB)

Download: Parco Lombardo della Valle del Ticino - ACTION PLAN per la gestione di Acipenser naccarii, dei suoi siti riproduttivi e della pesca settembre
(~7.3 MB)