In a recent report, the Society for Ecological Restoration Europe expresses deep doubts about the suitability of the proposed European Directive on soil monitoring and resilience and points out that it does not live up to expectations.
On 7 November, the European Parliament was the venue for an unprecedented seminar entitled “The need for forest management. The case of Mediterranean forests”, organised by Catalan MEP Jordi Solé, vice-president of the Greens/EFA parliamentary group.
Soil becomes increasingly enriched with nitrogen from activities such as intensive agriculture, which uses nitrogen-rich artificial fertilisers, or from livestock excrements.
The research has been published in the journal Nature Sustainability and was carried out by CSIC and CREAF researcher Josep Peñuelas and a team from CONICET, Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council.
CREAF is attending the COP28 on climate change to contribute its scientific view and knowledge on the need for the world’s governments to promote actions to adapt to climate change and to preserve biodiversity, in a context of global change.
CREAF pre-doctoral researcher Gerard Codina has received the ‘Impulsa Barraquer Grant’ awarded by the Barraquer Ophthalmology Centre, which will co-finance part of his doctoral thesis and promote his research on the resilience of Mediterranean forests.
Promoting climate-smart rewilding implies stimulating the natural capacity of ecosystems to adapt to global change and reverse biodiversity loss.
