Two thousand researchers are involved, eight intervention nodes, forty-eight partners among universities, public research bodies, private bodies and companies. These are just a few numbers of the National Biodiversity Future Center, the first Italian research center dedicated to biodiversity, established and financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and coordinated by the Cnr with a single objective: to counteract the loss of biodiversity.
A very important challenge, fundamental for the resilience of ecosystems and for human well-being. The Center's objectives, research and innovation initiatives on biodiversity will be discussed on Thursday 7 September, from 10, in the premises of the Hospitalis Sancti Antoni in Oristano, during a special meeting organized by the IMC Foundation, Centro Marino Internazionale.
«A coordinated set of research activities - explains Paolo Mossone, director of the IMC of Oristano - aimed at reducing the anthropic pressure on the marine biodiversity of the Mediterranean, defining and testing solutions to reduce the loss of biodiversity due to human activities such as fishing, navigation and tourism.
It is precisely the IMC Foundation, based in the hamlet of Torregrande, which, as an affiliate of the National Biodiversity Future Center, together with the CNR-IAS nucleus operating on the premises of the Foundation itself, develop activities in Sardinia aimed at the sustainable use of marine biodiversity, the restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems and the sustainable valorisation of marine resources.
"The event - underlines the director Mossone - represents an opportunity of great importance to discuss scientific and management initiatives that can be undertaken at local and national level for the protection of biodiversity of marine and coastal environments and their effects in the social field and cheap".