In November, the LIFE VIDALIA team, a project coordinated by the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change, held a networking meeting via Skype with the LIFE medCLIFFS project, a project to control invasive plants on the Mediterranean cliffs in the heart of the Cap de Creus Nature Park in Catalonia, Spain. Like most LIFE VIDALIA intervention areas, those of LIFE medCLIFFS are also part of the Natura 2000 network.
The main purpose of this meeting, whose contact was established by LIFE VIDALIA, was to promote networking with the transfer of methodologies and successful solutions during the four years already elapsed of the project, specifically in the eradication and control of Carpobrotus edulis, an invasive alien species also to be eradicated by LIFE medCLIFFS, although there are other identical ones, such as the Blue Morning Glory (Ipomea indica) and the Giant Reed (Arundo donax).
Maria Guirado and Gerard Carrión from LIFE medCLIFFS focused their questions on the methodology used by LIFE VIDALIA in removing Carpobrotus edulis on coastal cliffs and which plant waste management was developed.
Networking, replication and transfer of methodologies and strategies used in the conservation actions of the LIFE VIDALIA project are obligations to be carried out during the last year of the project and the five years after its end, so that other projects financed by the LIFE Programme benefit from the acquired technical knowledge.
A new meeting was also scheduled to exchange more information on other strategies on a date to be defined.
Find out more about this project at: www.lifevidalia.eu/en/.
