Today we had the pleasure of showing Mr. Juan Gutierrez of Aliwen Chile around our El Bruc plantation. In Chile they have serious issues with...
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Conference “Facing desertification in the Mediterranean with the Cocoon”
Tuesday, October 23th, at the Botanical Garden of Rome the LIFE Project The Green Link (LIFE15 CCA / ES / 000125) organizes its conference “Facing...
Replication in Matamorisca
On February 25, Volterra team visited Matamorisca, near Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia), to study the possibility of replicating Green Link in the area. Soil samples...
Presentation of Green Link in Riocerezo (Burgos)
On February 25th, Volterra team participated in an environmental education event organized by Fundación Oxígeno in Burgos. During the event, a plantation of native species...
Replication with Fundación Santa María La Real in Aguilar de Campoo
On February 16th, Volterra’s team visited Aguilar de Campoo to meet with the staff of Fundación Santa María La Real and introduce them to the...
Replication with Fundación Oxígeno in Padilla de Abajo
Last February 9th, Volterra team visited Padilla de Abajo to assist the municipality staff in preparing the terrain to be replanted with the help of...
Meeting with Fiplan XXI
On January 31, Egbert Sonneveld from Volterra met with David Sevillano and Oscar Arregui from Fiplan XXI, a company dedicated to agricultural and silvopastoral activities....
Visit to ITACyL
On January 15th, Volterra members met with José Antonio Rubio from the ITACyL’s Woody Crops and Vegetables Unit, at their facilities in Valladolid to continue...
Meeting with Vidar Soluciones Ambientales
On January 12th, Volterra members met with Gonzalo Vidal from Vidar Soluciones Ambientales, in Logroño to present him the project LIFE The Green Link. Gonzalo...
Meeting in Aguilar de Campoo
On 20 December, Volterra met with the members of Argeol in Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia) to present the project and discuss the possibility of replicating...
Networking in Fuentes de Nava
On December 18, Volterra’s team visited the facilities of Global Nature in Fuentes de Nava (Palencia) to discuss the possibility of replicating The Green Link...
Field visit in San Marco Argentano
On December 13, students from the Agrarian Department of Istituto Superiore L. Costanzo di Decollatura concluded the two-day educational event organized by Biopoplar with a...
The ULPGC welcomes the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the LIFE programme
Successful participation of 8 LIFE Projects in the networking event organized by LIFE BAQUA Past Thursday, November 30th, the celebration of the 25 years of...
Educational event in Calabria for students of Agro Highschool Istituto Superiore L. Costanzo
On 12-13 December Biopoplar s.r.l. organises, at the premises of the Vivaio Allasia Plant Magna Grecia in Soveria Mannelli (Cosenza, Calabria Region, Italy) and at...
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES IN GRAN CANARIA
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES & INAUGURATION EVENT IN GRAN CANARIA In the framework of the XLVIII Tree Day in Gran Canaria, held on November 26th 2017, an inauguration...
Fourth steering committee meeting in Athens
Fourth steering committee meeting in Athens Today, all partners united in Athens for a new project meeting to discuss progress of the different Actions, as...
New technical meeting Volterra – Landlife company
Recently, Sven Kallen of Volterra, visited Arnout Asjes and his team at Landlife company in Amsterdam to discuss progress on technical activities, especially those related...
Monitoring in the Jijona area, Alicante
Monitoring in the Jijona area, Alicante The CSIC-CIDE team has visited the Jijona plot (Alicante) to monitor the plantation.
Monitoring visit in Jijona area, Alicante
Monitoring visit in Jijona area, Alicante The CSIC-CIDE team has visited the Jijona plot (Alicante) to monitor the plantation. During the day they took the...
Volterra presents the Cocoon to the Deputy for Agriculture and Livestock in the province of Salamanca
On Wednesday October 4th the Deputy Roman Hernández invited the participants of the newly started Life agro silvo pastoral project Regenerate (Life 16 env/es/276) to visit...
New monitoring visit to El Bruc
Over the past months, the team of Volterra has been regularly in El Bruc to check the state of the plantations. Given the very dry...
Volterra reaches an agreement to replace oaks affected by La Seca for new planted with Cocoon
Egbert Sonneveld delivered on September 28 some Cocoons to Manuel Dié, from the Agrícola Bove, in Elvas and Campo Maior. Manuel plans to plant new...
Volterra visited the Fundación Global Nature/Conesa/Maggi site one month after planting
Egbert Sonneveld visited the site in Lobón near Badajoz to inspect the conditions of the trees and Cocoons after one month. The trees were in...
Project poster in Almería and monitoring visit
On September 7th he CAESCG team visited the demonstration area of Almería in Chirivel During the visit the participants verified the installation of the information...
Volterra participates to a tree planting session by Maggi (Nestlé), Conesa and Fundación Global Nature in Badajoz
Maggi invited some of their most important stakeholders in Germany to visit the sustainable tomato production fields and facilities of Conesa in Badajoz last August...
Monitoring in Tous area, Valencia
The CSIC-CIDE team has visited the Tous plot (Valencia) to monitor the plantation. During the day they took the opportunity to monitor the growth of...
Evaluation of Carbon content in Tous, Valencia
The CSIC-CIDE team has visited the Tous plot (Valencia) to monitor the plantation. During the day they took the opportunity to evaluate the carbon content...
Van Leijen Srl participates to workshop Conservation and Management of Mediterranean Coastal Areas and meets LIFE projects’ RES MARIS and REDUNE partnerships
Wednesday 14 June our project partner Van Leijen Srl has participated to the Conference on Conservation and Management of Coastal Areas in the Mediterranean, organised...
Installation of the notice board in the demonstration area of Tifaracás
Taking advantage of the visit of the expert monitor and the official meeting held on 23 and 24 May, the team took a picture in front...
Fieldwork in Gran Canaria
During the month of May the second plantation was carried out in the demonstration area of Tifaracás, Gran Canaria. In the photos we can see...
Volterra participates during the international conference on Climate Change Adaptation in Glasgow
During the 5th to the 9th of June 2017, the ECCA 3rd European Climate Change Adaptation conferece was held in Glasgow. ECCA 2017 was held...
Local awareness in Almería with the Velez Rubio school
On Monday, June 5th, celebrating World Environment Day, Santiaga responsible for the demonstration area of Almeria, presented to students the scope of The Green Link...
Visit of the Company Patagonia to the demonstration area of Almería
On Tuesday, June 6, the company Patagonia came to know the demonstration area of the project in Almeria. The company is aware of the impact...
VOLTERRA attends the EU Green Week summit in Brussels
On May 31st, representatives of VOLTERRA travelled to Brussels to be part of the EU Green Week Summit organized by the European Commission during the...
Local awareness with students in Almería
On May 30, 2017, Prof. Hermelindo Castro of the University of Almería and CAESCG, shared a session with the students of the subject Global Change,...
Anniversary and Celebration Event of the LIFE Program
On Thusday 18th May, the Green Fund and the LIFE Task Force organized the 25th Anniversary and Celebration Event of the LIFE Program at the...
Field trip to the demonstration area in the Canary Islands
On May 24, 2017, the technical monitoring meeting was continued in the demonstration field in the Canary Islands. The members of the project witnessed the...
Official monitoring meeting with EASME and NEEMO experts
On May 23, 2017, the monitor held the first technical and financial follow-up meeting, Maria José Aramburu, from the NEEMO team. During the day, the...
Networking activity at Finca de Osorio
Networking activity at Finca de Osorio in Gran Canaria On 22 May, project partners have held a meeting with other Life Projects, LIFE+ Rabiche (LIFE12...
Replication activities San Cebrián Foundation
Last Friday March 17, the Cocoon plantation in the parcel of the San Cebrián Foundation was completed. The parcel is located in the village San Cebrián...
Networking LIFE Operation CO2
This week the Volterra team has represented LIFE The Green Link at the final conference of LIFE Operation CO2 in Palencia (Northern Spain). The conference...
UAL-CAESCG presents The Green Link at the InfoAgro Exhibition
From the 10 to 12 may, the InfoAgro Exhibition is organised in the Aguadulce Exhibition Centre in Almería. During the fair, producers and commercialists from...
Invitation to networking event in Gran Canaria
Cooperation event LIFE projects Monday, 22nd of May 2017 From 3 to 7.30 pm Finca de Osorio (Las Palmas, Gran Canaria) CONVOCATORIA The effects...
Project dissemination among students of professional education
Our partners of the Universtity of Almería organized an informative day for the higher professional education students from Almería. A group of students studying Forest...
Spring planting El Bruc completed
Under supervision of the teams of Volterra and CREAF, the spring planting in El Bruc has been brought to an end successfully. We planted a...
Our cover crops expert visits the plantation site in El Bruc
This week, our cover crops expert has visited the project plots in El Bruc and talked with their owners, in order to investigate the options...
First trial with improved wicks started in El Bruc
As part of the improvements of the Cocoon, our partners from Volterra and CREAF set up the first trial for the testing of alternative types...
Voluntary group of El Bruc (Catalonia) organizes communal reforestation
In order to promote the conservation of local fruit and forest tree species, the voluntary group of El Bruc will organize two events of local...
The Green Link meets with the University of Extremadura and the Global Nature Foundation.
On Thursday March 23rd, the Volterra team met with Gerardo Moreno of the University of Extremadura and Laura García of the Fundación Global Nature. Laura...
Is the cocoon interesting for farmers in Portugal? Water Management seminar in Evora
Is the cocoon interesting for farmers in Portugal? Water Management seminar in Evora The association of Dutch farmers in Portugal organised its annual meeting on...
Historias de Luz publishes video about The Green Link in Almeria
The online Andalucian news channel ´Historias de Luz (Histories of Light), has published a video in which our colleagues Hermelindo Castro and Inés Gutiérrez of...
Monitoring visit CSIC-CIDE and Volterra to Tous plantation site
Before the start of the second plantation, the team of CSIC-CIDE visited the project site in Tous, Valencia, in order to check the state of...
The online magazine Historias de Luz interviews UAL-CAESCG about The Green Link
Last week, representatives of the online magazine Historia de Luz visited the project site of the University of Almeria in Chirivel. Historia de la Luz...
Invitation to the final conference of LIFE Operation CO2
The Operation CO2 project culminates this year and holds its final conference on May 17 and 18 in Valladolid. Kathy Franco, coordinator of the diffusion...
Inventory of cover crop possibilities in Chirivel, Almeria
This week the teams of Volterra and UAL-CAESCG have visited the plantation site in Chirivel, Almeria, in order to talk with the owners of the...
Start of the interviews and delivery of informative leaflets in El Bruc
The Creaf team has begun interviews with local stakeholders about their perceptions on the services that are delivered by the ecosystem they inhabit. Among the...
Opening event in El Bruc
On Thursday March 9, 2017, the Volterra and Creaf team celebrated a the inauguration of the demonstration area. The event was attended by the owners...
Volterra´s cover crop specialist visits Tous project site
Volterra´s recently contracted cover crop specialist visited the plantation site in Tous, in order to study the possibilities for the establishment of a green cover...
Placement of the informative panel in the demonstration area in Catalonia
The Volterra team visited the demonstration area in El Bruc, in order to place the informative panel next to the plantation site. The team took advantage of...
Monitoring visit first plantation Tous
During their presence at the plantation site in Tous, the teams of Volterra and CSIC-CIDE visited the plantation of October 2016. The plantation was found...
Second planting in Tous, Valencia under way
This week Land Life Company, assisted by Volterra Ecosystems, has started the second planting in Tous, which included a variety of fruit trees (Walnut, Almond,...
Land Life Company awarded with funding for environmental project on refugee camps
The Dutch Postcode Lottery has awarded a support of more than €2 million to the ´Green Refugee Camp´ project of the UNHCR and The Green...
Local awareness raising in El Bruc
Last Friday February 24, farmers of El Bruc met with their Counsillor of Environment, in order to discuss the possibilities of reproduction of the Vera...
Networking with Fundación Global Nature
As part of the project´s dissemination and replication strategy, Egbert Sonneveld and Sven Kallen visited the Palencia office (Northern Spain) of the nature conservation NGO...
Social monitoring in Almeria is initiated
During the week of February 6 2017, the team of UAL-CAECSG started the social monitoring of the local perception of stakeholders on the possible benefits...
The Catalonian forests suffer from summer droughts
Our partner CREAF has presented its annual monitoring report on the state of the Catalonian forests (DeBosCat) for 2016. The year was characterized by an extremely...
Questionnaires ready for the surveys on local perception on ecosystem services
UAL-CAESCG has completed the questionnaires that will be used for the monitoring of the socio-economic impact of LIFE The Green Link. This month, each partner...
UAL-CAESCG takes soil samples in Almería
Last week the researchers of UAL-CAESCG took soil samples at the planting site in Chirivel. They will analyse soil properties important for the soil´s productivity, such...
LIFE+ Olivares Vivos reforests using the Cocoon
LIFE+ Olivares Vivos (Living Olive Orchards) is a project that “pursues to establish a profitable model for olivoculture that is compatible with nature conservation, through...
EC report confirms that climate change is threatening many ecosystem services
According to a scientific review by the University of the West of England that was published in the latest Science for Environment Policy news update of the...
Cocoon planting guide now available for download
This guide explains the preparations and steps to take in order to plant tres with the Cocoon method. It was developed by the Land Life Company and...
Continuing planting Almonds in Almería
On Monday February the 6th, LLC and the UAL-CAESCG were present during the plantation of Almonds (Prunus dulcis) and the indigenous shrub species Tamarix gallica in Chirivel,...
Monitoring visit plantation site Jijona, Alicante
Last week the Volterra team paid a visit to the Jijona plantation site, as part of the monitoring activities for LIFE The Green Link. Although...
UAL-CAESCG starts monitoring local perception of the project
As part of the monitoring activities of LIFE The Green Link, a serie of interviews will be hold with local stakeholders in all intervention areas. In every...
Succesful inauguration day in Chirivel, Almería
The inauguration event in Chirivel, Almería was organized by the owner of the demonstration area, Doña Santiaga Sánchez with the collaboration of UAL-CAESCG. The event...
Invitation to the inauguration of the demonstration area in El Bruc, Cataluña
Invitation to the inauguration of the demonstration area in El Bruc, Cataluña The partners of the Project LIFE THE GREEN LINK invite all citizens interested...
Training on mycorrizhae and their application in Almería
Last January 31st, the Volterra team visited the Almería project site in Chirivel, in order to instruct the landowners and their two employees on the...
Mayor visits plantation site in Tous
Today the mayor of Tous, Mr. Cristóbal García Santafilomena, has visited the The Green Link project site that is located within his municipality. The mayor was...
Cooperation between LIFE The Green Link and the San Cebrián Foundation
This week Volterra and the Spanish San Cebrián Foundation have started the preparations for a planting that is planned to be executed this spring. The replication area...
The Green Link on Spanish National Radio
Tuesday the 17th of this month, the Spanish National Radio (RNE) interviewed Dr. Rubio of our project partner Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación-CSIC (CIDE-CSIC) on...
Monitoring visit to El Bruc by Volterra team
Yesterday, Sven Kallen and Egbert Sonneveld of Volterra, visited the owners and field sites in El Bruc, Catalonia. During the monitoring visit, the state of...
Meeting on Sensoterra in Land Life Company office in Amsterdam
Egbert Sonneveld travelled on January 18th to Amsterdam to meet Oscar Westerhof responsible for the product development and sales of Sensoterra. Also LLC CEO Jurriaan...
Creaf announces the Life The Green Link project
In order to give information and notoriety to the work done by The Green Link project, CREAF has put the large information poster at the...
Project leaflets and notice boards ready for distribution
Volterra has designed the leaflets and notice boards which are a valuable tool to disseminate information about the project to indirect stakeholders and the wider public....
Invitation to the inauguration of the demonstration area in Chirivel, Almería
Invitation to the inauguration of the demonstration area in Chirivel, Almería The partners of the Project LIFE THE GREEN LINK invite all citizens interested in...
The Green Link Baseline characterization report completed
Last week the baseline characterization report was completed by the project leader CREAF. The report completes preparatory action A1 and contains a resource inventory and...