📋 Tender Overview
ADMINISTRATIVE DATA
Reference: LIFE23-NAT-IT-LIFE-ADAPTS/101148207
Acronym: LIFE23-NAT-IT-LIFE ADAPTS
Start Date: 01/01/2025
End Date: 28/02/2030
Total Eligible Budget: 4,688,583 €
EU Contribution: 2,672,859 €
CONTACT DETAILS
Coordinating Beneficiary: UNIVERSITA DI PISA
Legal Status: PUBLIC
Address: LUNGARNO PACINOTTI 43/44, 56126, Pisa,
Contact Person: Paolo CASALE
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
Climate change is inevitable and current conservation priorities - based on current or past contexts - might not be effective or efficient under future climate change scenarios.
Rising sea levels due to global warming could lead to the flooding of sea turtle nesting beaches and monk seal pupping caves, resulting in the loss of these critical habitats for a successful reproduction of these vulnerable animals.
The project directly contributes to the implementation of the EU Habitats Directive and the Biodiversity Strategy, as well as the EU strategy for tackling climate change, as described in the European Climate Law and the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change.
Marine species conservation is part of the EU environmental agenda, being also a key point in the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the Common Fisheries Policy.
OBJECTIVES
The overall objective of the LIFE ADAPTS project is to identify the most likely future priorities for the EU populations of 3 priority species: the sea turtles Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas, and the monk seal Monachus monachus, and to promote such an approach in conservation practices. The 3 main environmental problems and proposed solutions covered by the project are climate change (particularly sea-level rise and warming temperatures), by-catch and coastal development.
In the 3 EU countries most important for the 3 species (Italy, Greece and Cyprus), LIFE ADAPTS will identify the coastal and marine areas most likely to be resistant to the impacts of climate change and that therefore will represent very important areas for the future target populations, even if they are not considered as such at present time.
The project then aims to establish the long-term protection of these sites through the adoption of specific regulations, action plans and other measures, by the competent authorities in the 3 countries.
The specific objectives of LIFE ADAPTS are:
mapping and analysing existing and potential sea turtle nesting sites and monk seal pupping/resting sites
assessing the risks posed to these sites by sea-level rise
assessing the risk posed by global warming to sea turtle nesting sites in terms of feminisation (sea turtles have temperature-dependent sex determination and high temperatures produce females)
identifying key marine areas likely to have an important role for the species in future contexts
developing a comprehensive conservation strategy based on these findings and on climate change adapta
