por: Land Life Company On December 18, Willemijn Stoffels participated as a speaker during the conference “The Struggle Against Climate Change from the Forest Sector”,...
Archive for year: 2019

Networking presentation at LIFE Forest CO2 conference
by: Land Life Company On December 18, Willemijn Stoffels participated as a speaker at the conference “The Struggle Against Climate Change from the Forest Sector”,...
Successful participation in Climate and Energy fair
The Energy Island Council of Cabildo de Gran Canaria celebrated last December 17th the Climate and Energy fair in the municipal stadium of Maspalomas, as...

Next planting days on April 17 and September 18, 2020
Climate change decreases the availability of water in Catalonia and affects the agricultural sector, which progressively finds it more difficult to make viable rainfed plantations....

LIFE project The Green Link organized the successful #COP25 official planting event
On December 8, within the framework of the United Nations conference on climate change 2019 #COP25, the event’s official planting was carried out in #LazRozas-Madrid...

¡New record: 5 Life networking events in 5 days!
New record: 5 Life networking events #biochar in 5 days in Spain & Portugal. #Biochar #Cocoon New record: 5 Life networking events #biochar in 5...

Monitoring Meeting in Valencia
LIFE Project The Green Link team met in #Valencia to present the monitoring results to the @LIFEprogramme project adviser. #thegreenlink team met in #Valencia to...

VIII Experimental Sciences Investigation Symposium
VIII Experimental Sciences Investigation Symposium During the 14-15 of November, the VIII Experimental Sciences Investigation Symposium was celebrated in Almería. Itaims to be a forum...

Replication with Almendra de Gran Canaria association
Last November the 20th, 2019, 20 Cocoons were delivered to Almendra de Gran Canaria association, provided by Cabildo de Gran Canaria Environmental Counselor, Dª Inés...
Field monitoring in Padilla de Abajo plantation
During Autumn 2019, the Padilla de Abajo council team and Fundación Oxígeno organized the monitoring visit to the replication site. The information collected registered, in...

Birding Natura conducts trial with Cocoon
On 8th of November, Jaume Balsells, representative of Birding Natura, visited VOLTERRA’s office in order to know more about the Cocoon and its benefits. Birding...

Riverside forests threatened and essential to avoid the effects of downpours – video
A video of TV3alacarta on the riverside forests, threatened and essential to avoid the effects of downpours. Partner Volterra Ecosystems of LIFE The Green Link...

LIFE Green Link in a video of TV3alacarta in «Els matins»
The video of TV3alacarta on the riverside forests, threatened and essential to avoid the effects of downpours. Partner Volterra Ecosystems of LIFE The Green Link...

Upcoming event: The Cocoon system – application in dry agricultural plantations
CREAF – Center for Ecological Research and Forest Applications – is preparing another day of presentation of the Cocoon. In this case the day will...

Volterra Ecosystems monitoring reforestation trials with Cocoons
Today Volterra Ecosystems monitored its reforestation trials with Cocoons and scouted for new land to replicate. Ver esta publicación en Instagram Today monitoring...

Presentation of The Green Link project to the Technical Committee of Gremi d’Àrids de Catalunya
Today a meeting of the Technical Committee of the Gremi d’Àrids of Catalonia was held at Creaf. El Gremi is an association that brings together...

II Young Agro science Researcher Congress
On October 17th, 2019 the II Young Agro science Researcher Congress was celebrate in the University of Almería. The Green Link project participated in the...

Another great appointment to plant trees in Sicily
On October 14th the second appointment with Eng. Pirrera was held to plant trees on the route of the ancient Trasversale Sicula. This time, specimens...

Coccon – Alternative to reforest
“Cocoon”, an innovative method of growing trees. This biodegradable cardboard casing is used to reforest dryland fields or damaged lands, for example, by the effects...

Dwarf palms planted during the opening event of the Antica Trasversale Sicula
On 3rd of October 2019, during the opening event of the Antica Trasversale Sicula at the Marsala Museum (Director Anna Maria Parrinello) 10 specimens of...

Networking with Horizon 2020 project BIOFIT
Today, CERTH team visited the tested plots of LIFE The Green Link project in Ptolemais with the partners of the Horizon 2020 project BIOFIT. During...

Visit of Master students to the Almería demonstration area
On September 24, Master students from the Universities of Göttingen and Kassel (Germany) visited the Almería demonstration area in Chirivel.
Forest fire burns down our trees in Arucas, Gran Canaria
Source: www.eldirario.es A cable linked to a huge canary pine caused the beginning of the forest fire that burned down 10.000 ha last month, in...

LIFE Project The Green Link – “Steam Restoration and Bioengineering”
Mr. Gianluca Pirrera presented the LIFE The Green Link project in the course “Steam Restoration and Bioengineering”. He spoke about Coocon´s use in the replications...

The project is paying off recovering the forests of Gran Canaria
After much effort in planting work (October-December 2018), and hard maintenance work (irrigation in the months of July and August 2019); Today we have been...

LIFE the Green Link “Ready, steady, Green! ”
The most recent edition of the magazine “Ready, steady, green!” published a list of the projects that were co-financed by the European Union through the...

LIFE The Green Link in conference TERRAenVISION 2019
Vicenc Carabassa of CREAF presenting the LIFE project The Green Link at TERRAenVISION 2019 conference on sustainable development goals in Barcelona. Strong interest from the...

The CCMA describes the Coocon
The Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation, published on August 25 an article describing the composition of the Coocon and its usefulness in the reforestation of the...

Reforestation of El Bruc – Barcelona
It is a real pleasure to participate in the reforestation of beautiful areas like El Bruc (Barcelona), where we have planted around 4,000 trees since...

Project technician’s test repellent product to avoid feral goats
This week and due to the damage that goats still cause in reforestation in the Tifaracás area within the LIFE The Green Link project, project...

Cocoon technique for reforestation
In the interview for TV3 channel, Vicenç Carabassa, coordinator for LIFE The Green Link project, and Ander Achotegui, responsible for agricultural and forest management at EMYS...

Valérie Deweirder explains what she learned in the LIFE project The Green Link.
We continue adding professionals who know the characteristics of the LIFE The Green Link Project in Gran Canaria. In this case, we publish this interview...

One step forward thanks to Consejero Olona
Gracias al Consejero Olona por atendernos y su interés en saber más sobre el Cocoon y nuestra ambición de ampliar proyectos de reforestación en Aragón...

Successful demonstration day in Can Moragues farm
Last Friday, 5th of July, we organized a successful demonstration day in Can Moragues farm, Riudarenes. The ecotechnology of the Cocoon and its role in...

The cocoon, a tool designed to improve the efficiency of reforestation
? El mètode vol ajudar a les plantes a sobreviure proporcionant aigua constant en terres de secà o en zones deteriorades, com ara per un...

Thanks to the Cocoon 15 new trees in Valdepeñas.
On June 25 in Valdepeñas – Ciudad Real, 15 Cornicabra trees (Pistacia terebinthus) were planted with Cocoon technology from LIFE The Green Link and the...

Soil, water, plants and the Cocoons
On Thursday 26/06/2019, 26 students from Wageningen University (master’s degree International Land and Water Management) visited Jijona’s plantation with their teachers Teun Vogel and Luuk...

Technical day in Can Moragues
Div 5 de juliol ?, amb @CREAF_ecologia farem una jornada tècnica a Can Moragues per presentar el projecte demostratiu sobre la metodologia Cocoon ? experiències...

Dr Francisco González Artiles, Cocoon technology – “New and very simple”
Dr Francisco González Artiles, Technical Officer of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, explains how the reforestation process is carried out in desertified environments with Cocoon...

Volterra participated in the III Iberian Congress on River Restoration
Recently Nacho Martin of Volterra Ecosystems participated in the III Iberian Congress on River Restoration. This forum brought together experts from the restauration and management...

The “Cocoon” system: the service of ecological restoration and agriculture.
CREAF and the Emys Foundation in collaboration with the LIFE The Green Link project invite the technical conference that will take place on July 5...

Cocoon tree growing counters desertification in the Mediterranean
As the Mediterranean is experiencing greater water ? stress & more frequent changes in rainfall and drought, #LIFEproject #TheGreenLink ??is using a cocoon system for...

Penultimate visit to the Tifaracás area
Last week we had the last visit to the LIFE The Green Link project in the Tifaracás area. On this occasion we were accompanied by...

Replication of LIFE-The Green Link in Turin
On June 4, 2019, the replication field of Life-The Green Link, done in Turin as part of the Urban Forestry project, promoted by the City...

#thegreenlink Life Project mentioned on DK TV
(Danish) #thegreenlink Life Project mentioned on DK TV (00:27) in a discussion on how much, if any, restrictions the #EU should place on member country...

CIDE participated in the celebration of the Fascination of Plants Day
A new dissemination activity within The Green Link project was carried out last Saturday, May 18. This day, The Desertification Research Centre (CIDE) participated in...

Replication activities in the Lignite Centre of Western Macedonia
A number of 350 trees with cocoon have already been established in the Lignite Centre of Western Macedonia. The species are the following: Cupressus sempervirens...

Networking between #thegreenlink and #LifeRegenerate
Ver esta publicación en Instagram Yes we are a bit crazy planting trees at the end of May. But with Cocoons we give...

The journalist Ask Rostrup, take two Danes on a trip to the borders of Spain #Cocoon
The world is heating and experts have calculated that the maximum temperature the planet can rise to is one and a half degrees if you...

How to engage young people in climate change mitigation?
Students of Highschool “Cardarelli” in Tarquinia have planted trees with the Cocoon in order to reforest a dry area owned by the highschool. On the...

LIFE The Green Link ‘s southest replication initiative in Italy
LIFE The Green Link ‘s southest replication initiative in Italy took place in these days in Lampedusa in the framework of a huge comparative trial...

Such a proud moment today to revisit our planting of last year
Ver esta publicación en Instagram Such a proud moment today to revisit our planting of last year and see excellent survival rates and...

Monitoring and technical control in Gran Canaria
Monitoring and technical control in Gran Canaria The technician of LIFE The Green Link project traveled last week to Tifaracás in Gran Canaria for the...

EU LIFE Regional Information & Networking Day on the LIFE program
The past Tuesday 07/05/2019 was the event the EU LIFE Regional Information & Networking Day on the LIFE program and the new 2019 call. The...

Celebrating replication activities in Amsterdam
Ver esta publicación en Instagram Today in Amsterdam to celebrate excellent development of replication activities #thegreenlink and discuss even more ambitious reforestation projects for the...

¡We continue with the visits to the demonstration area in Gran Canaria!
¡We continue with the visits to the demonstration area in Gran Canaria! (07/05/2019)

Volterra, Land Life Company and CREAF monitor the last plantation with biochar
This week the partners Volterra Ecosystems, Land Life Company and CREAF undertook monitoring activities around the last plantation with the Cornicabra olives and biochar in...

Celebrating the Earth Day in Gran Canaria
In the week where we celebrate the Earth Day – May 22nd – we show you an anecdote: we took advantage of the development...

Promoting innovative adaptation strategies by networking with other LIFE projects
Volterra actively participated in a networking seminar between LIFE projects in Madrid, organized by the Fundación Biodiversidad On April 25th, a meeting of LIFE Climate...

Actions against climate change involve the Cocoon
The temperature has risen up to 2 degrees in some areas of Spain. The effects of climate change are already felt in the countryside: smaller...

Visit of the students of the Biology Degree of the Autonomous University of Madrid
Visit of the students of the Biology Degree of the Autonomous University of Madrid on April 23, 2019

Workshop within the framework of the project LIFE16 CCM/GR/000044 BIOMASS C+: Possibilities and prospects of biomass utilization in Amynteo
An overall presentation of the Green Link project was made in the workshop organized by Centre for Research and Technological Hellas/ Institute of Chemical Processes...

New replication site almost ready in Palencia
Over the past weeks a new replication project in Fontecha (municipality of Guardo, province of Palencia), was finished. About 50,000 trees were planted as a...

Biopoplar srl, partner for Italy of LIFE The Green Link
Today 18th April Biopoplar srl, partner for Italy of LIFE The Green Link, participated to the communication meeting of Urban Forestry project, hosted in the...

Facing the Mediterranean desertification with the Cocoon
A new dissemination activity within The Green Link project was carried out Wednesday 10/04/2019. In this case, I visited the Institute of Secondary Education “El...

Replication activities in a school of Agia Paraskeui, Greece
Apple, peach and cherry trees have already established with the Cocoon Technology in the framework of replication activities in Greece. CERTH/CPERI team visited a school...

Radio SER Canarias interviews Paco González
Radio SER Canarias interviews Paco González, who talks about the technical benefits of using the cocoon for reforestation in arid soils. interview in spanish

First public visit to the demonstration area in Gran Canarias
During the departure a video of the day was made.This is the first outing with interested people who have freely registered to learn about the...

Measures for soil stability and conservation #Cocoon
On Friday 05/04/2019, Eugenia Gimeno was invited to give a key lecture in the 4th edition of the Seasonal University of Valencia. This is a...

7º Steering committee meeting in Almería
Kickoff of new project partners meeting @LIFEprogramme #thegreenlink in Almería, kindly inaugurated by Vice Rector D. Diego Luís Valera of @ualmeria pic.twitter.com/RSqraUp2VO — Volterra Ecosystems...

Monitoring and control in Almería
Excelent visit in our almond demo site in Almería for #thegreenlink, supporting the project @AlVelAl_4R #agriculturaregenerativa. Thank you also to Santi and his team for...

Replication of another 100.000 trees in Spain!
Super proud of our planting team coordinating another 100.000? this Spring in northern Spain in cooperation with dear partner landlifecompany in lifeprogramme #thegreenlink replication… https://t.co/IYxyGK3rHy...

External replicators in Gran Canaria
External replicators in Gran Canaria La Fundación Foresta is a private, no-profit entity with the aim to Recover, Mantain and Conserve the Canary islands’ Forest....

Replication activities in Italy – Apulia
Update: another replication site established in Italy within The Green Link Project: Apulia on March 25th 2019 agricultural company Guaceto completed the planting of 50...

Next steps for replication activities in Greece with PPC
Next steps for replication activities in Greece with PPC Preparation activities for the next establishment of cocoon in the Public Power Corporation PPC facilities. 300 trees...

First replication activities completed in Greece
First replication activities completed in Greece In the framework of replication activities, CERTH/CREPI has already started the cocoon establishment during February 2019. The replication actions...

60 new cork trees in Cecina!
Last week, on a plot of about one hectare in the municipality of Cecina, specimens of Quercus suber were planted with the use of 60...

#FridaysForFuture, The Green Link is present!
On March 15th, in occasion of the global climate day, the IIS “V. Cardarelli ”of Tarquinia, through the Eng. Federico Boccalaro invited us to participate...

Networking with the WWF project for improving forests in the Regional South-East Park
Networking with the WWF project for improving forests in the Regional South-East Park We joined with 10 Cocoons the WWF project with the aim of...

Local awareness events are being taken in Italy – Caldarelli Highschool
Local awareness events are being taken in Italy At the highschool “Cardarelli” of Tarquinia a series of events dedicated to LIFE The Green Link have...

Special interest group visit in TIFARACÁS
Special interest group visit in TIFARACÁS ON the 13th of March 2019, the directory team of ICIA (Canary Institute for Agrarian Researches) visited the execution...

Field visit of CERTH team in Ptolemais
Monitoring visit of CERTH team in Ptolemais On Wednesday 6th March 2019, CERTH team visited the pilot area in order to evaluate and monitor tree...

Replication activities with the Regional Government of Castilla y León
6/3/2019, by Volterra On March 6, Nacho Martín from Volterra visited an experimental plantation in Nava de la Asunción (Segovia), to train technicians from the...

Replication in Italy with Urban Forestry
Replication in Italy with Urban Forestry On 6th March 2019 Biopoplar srl was present to the planting of the first of 50 seedlings with Cocoon...

Launch of the first activities of replication in Italy
Launch of the first activities of replication in Italy As part of the replication actions envisaged by the project, contacts have been made with those...

Visit of students to CIDE-CSIC facilities
Visit of students to CIDE-CSIC facilities Continuing with the dissemination activities of The Green Link project, past Tuesday 19/02/2019 CIDE-CSIC received the visit of a...

Interview in a national radio show «Ημερολόγιο» of 102-fm radio of ΕΡΤ3
On February 14th, 2019, Mr. Dimitrios Kourkoumpas from CERTH gave a radio interview about the LIFE The Green Link project. He presented the objectives, the...

Students visit the project
Past Tuesday 12th of February, CIDE-CSIC received the visit of a group of students of the Institute of Secondary Education “Laurona” (from Lliria, Valencia), and...

Meeting in Amsterdam to discuss replication activities
Saying goodbye again to Amsterdam. Thanks to all colleagues of @LandLifeCompany for intense brainstorm on future replication and commercial rollout of Cocoon plantings @LIFEprogramme #thegreenlink...

Replication programming in Almería
Replication programming in Almería Last Tuesday 29th of January, while visiting the Chirivel plantations in Almería, the CAESCG team had the chance to start organizing...

Another replication activity in Burgos, Spain
The Castrillo de Murcia bike race group will organize an replication activity and plant one tree per each subscription they had on their race last...

New video published about the replication results so far
In the video, we show what evironmental impacts the project LIFE The GreeLink are trying to tackle and what are its results until now. The...

Monitoring and controlling the green covers in Andalusia
Monitoring and controlling the green covers in Andalusia A year has already passed since we planted in Almería nd everything seems to have adapted to...

Replication activities with Cocoons in Canary Islands
Great visit to Gran Canaria, meeting colleagues of Cabildo and new friends involved in replication activities with Cocoons like the Mogan Bonito iniciative. Gracias por...