International Webinar: Conservation and sustainable use of saltwater wetlands in the Black Sea and Mediterranean region

Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation (BBF), Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) and Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania (PPNEA) are invited to join an international webinar Conservation and sustainable use of saltwater wetlands in the Black Sea and Mediterranean region on behalf of World Wetlands Day – 2^nd of February 2022.

Objectives:

The organisers from the three environmental NGOs aim to bring together key partners from the Black Sea and Mediterranean regions to share best practices for sustainable use of saltwater wetlands that could be replicated or transferred to other sites. The webinar will celebrate World Wetlands Day 2022 and highlight the importance of saltwater wetlands for people and nature.

Participants from eight European countries will present the natural site, the organisation that he/she represents, the main management techniques used in the wetland and will demonstrate the benefits for people and nature from Atanasovsko Lake, Poda and Pomorie Lake coastal lagoon in Bulgaria, Narta Salina (Albania), Camargue (France), Cadiz (Spain), Ulcinj (Montenegro), Cap-Atlantique (France), etc.

Who is the webinar for?

It is a public event directed to professionals (scientists, managers of protected areas, researchers, journalists), but also with free access for people with interest in this topic. Subsequently, the organisers will prepare a short report from the webinar summarizing the best practices across different sites which will be distributed via websites and social media channels.

Speakers:

BULGARIA:	·       Diyana Kostovska, BBF project manager ·       Dimitar Popov, Green Balkans, project manager ·       Petar Iankov – BSPB, ornithologist ·       Biliana Desheva, visual artist
ALBANIA:	·       Xhemal Xherri – PPNEA project manager
FRANCE:	·       Brigitte Poulin & Marc Thibault, Research scientists at Tour du Valat Research Institute ·       Philippe Lambret – Dragonfly expert, Project Leader Odonata Conservation ·       Valériane Métayer, project manager of LIFE SALLINA
SPAIN:	·       Cristina Sánchez Alonso, Head of SEO/BirdLife Office in Catalonia ·       Juan Martin – Salarte
PORTUGAL:	·       Marcia Vaz Pinto – Salina GREEN
GREECE:	·       Manolia Vougioukalou, Conservation Project Coordinator, Hellenic Ornithological Society, BirdLife Greece
MONTENEGRO	·       Bojan Zeković, Center for Protection and Research of Birds, BirdLife Montenego
CYPRUS	·       Representative of Birdlife Cyprus

 

Languages:

English

Date:

The streaming is scheduled for 2^nd of February, 2022, 10:00 – 16:30 CET???.

Agenda:

Download the agenda of the webinar here.

Link:

You can participate to the webinar through this link.

For more information follow Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/4844264042328830

Websites of the organisers

https://lagoon.biodiversity.bg/en/ / https://bspb.org/en/  / https://ppnea.org

Contact

For more information, please contact Diyana Kostovska (BBF) –

Topic: International Webinar for the World Wetlands Day 2022
Time: Feb 2, 2022 11:00 AM Sofia
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