LIFE Pinnarca
Protection and restoration of Pinna nobilis populations as a response to the catastrophic pandemic started in 2016.
Funding code: LIFE20-NAT/ES/001265
Description: The main objective of the project is to put into practice mitigation measures that prevent the total extinction of Pinna nobilis in the short-medium term. The disease affecting the fan mussel is expected to devastate nearly all the remaining populations, leaving only a few scattered potentially resistant individuals and a few populations of non-resistant individuals in refuges (i.e. coastal lagoons, deltas, etc.). There is no current treatment for the disease, and even if there were, its application would be likely constricted to captive individuals due to practical difficulties in the open sea. Yet, if no actions are taken, the resistant individuals will perish in time without leaving any offspring, whereas the populations in refuges will decay, being unable to repopulate if any other factor kills them. The present project proposes urgent measures within the framework of a collaborative consortium of experts in the field that enables the application of international measures. Thus, the project will focus on 3 objectives:
- Increasing awareness on a global scale
- Gathering information about the remaining populations and resistant individuals and inclusion in an integrated database on the LIFE Pinnarca webpage.
- Developing recovery actions focused on both the resistant and the remaining non-resistant populations, to increase the probablilites of recovery of the species.
Developed between 01/10/2021 and 31/12/2024
Amount: 2.249.332 €.
Other entities/participants: Agencia Estatal del Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centre Oceanogràfic de Balears, Spain, Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain, Ecologistas en Acción Región de Murcia, Spain, Institut Océanographique Paul Ricard, France, Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentaries, la Ràpita, Spain, Panepistimio Aigaiou, Universidad del Egeo - Unidad de Investigación, Greece, Universidad de Alicante, Spain, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II - Dipartimento di Biologia, Italy.
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