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13.12201918/10/2021
Next planting days on April 17 and September 18, 2020

Next planting days on April 17 and September 18, 2020

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Creaf, Emys Foundation, Volterra

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....

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09.10201910/10/2019
Coccon – Alternative to reforest

Coccon – Alternative to reforest

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Cocoon

“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...

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02.09201919/09/2019
The CCMA describes the Coocon

The CCMA describes the Coocon

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Cocoon, LLC

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...

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26.06201918/10/2021
Technical day in Can Moragues

Technical day in Can Moragues

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Cocoon

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

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08.11201808/11/2018
Invitation to the 1st Meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society & XIV AEET Meeting next Feb 2019

Invitation to the 1st Meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society & XIV AEET Meeting next Feb 2019

By VolterraIn NewsTags All areas, Catalonia, Communication actions, Creaf, Networking activities, Spain

1st Meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society & XIV AEET Meeting “Ecology: an integrative science in the Anthropocene” 4th-7th February 2019, Barcelona Spain Coinciding with...

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23.10201829/10/2018
Tree planting together with Leaseplan and Land Life Company

Tree planting together with Leaseplan and Land Life Company

By VolterraIn News, ReplicationTags Catalonia, Cocoon, LLC, Replication other areas, Volterra

Proud to present our Life project #thegreenlink to CEO’s of important multinationals interested to mitigate their companies’ emissions. Even prouder to have our kids join...

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22.10201807/11/2018
Replanting of olives and biochar experiment in El Bruc

Replanting of olives and biochar experiment in El Bruc

By VolterraIn News, ReplicationTags Catalonia, Cataluña, Cocoon, Networking activities, Spain, Volterra

Replanting of olives and biochar experiment in El Bruc 22/10/2018, by Volterra Today the team of Volterra with the support of Javier Fernández of Carbón...

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28.06201805/07/2018
Visit to Jijona plantation of Wageningen University students (master’s degree International Land and Water Management).

Visit to Jijona plantation of Wageningen University students (master’s degree International Land and Water Management).

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Cocoon

It was a very constructive visit in which the Green Link Life project was presented to the students, who were very interested about the results....

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11.05201823/05/2018
New Visit of UAB students to the restored area in El Bruc

New Visit of UAB students to the restored area in El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Cocoon, Creaf

Lat May 11, we visited the Bruc area again with students of the double degree of Environmental Sciences and Geology of the Autonomous University of...

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23.04201825/04/2018
Visit of UAB students to the restored area in El Bruc

Visit of UAB students to the restored area in El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Spain

Last Friday we visited the restored area in El Bruc with students of the double degree of Environmental Sciences and Geology of the Autonomous University...

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12.02201818/10/2021
Poster presented at TerraEnvision International Conference

Poster presented at TerraEnvision International Conference

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Creaf

The team of CREAF recently presented a poster at the congress TerraEnvision (https://terraenvision2018.eu/), that was held in Barcelona. The project and the results of the...

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27.11201704/12/2017
Cover crop mix sowed by Volterra in El Bruc

Cover crop mix sowed by Volterra in El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Cocoon, Cover crops, Volterra

Last week the recently mixed cover crops were sown in over one hectare, divided between 2 properties of El Bruc. The work took about 2...

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10.10201730/11/2017
Placement of Notice Board in El Bruc

Placement of Notice Board in El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia

Finally, the new notice board in Catalan was placed at one of the land owners in El Bruc. We have now 2 notice boards in...

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03.10201710/11/2017
New monitoring visit to El Bruc

New monitoring visit to El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Monitoring activities, News, Volterra

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...

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27.06201720/03/2020
Participation in an international conference CONSOWA-Lleida

Participation in an international conference CONSOWA-Lleida

By VolterraIn NewsTags Almeria, Andalucía, Cabildo of Gran Canaria, Catalonia, Communication actions, Italy, Ptolemais
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24.04201718/10/2021
Spring planting El Bruc completed

Spring planting El Bruc completed

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Creaf, Implementation actions, Monitoring activities, Volterra

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...

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22.04201708/05/2017
Our cover crops expert visits the plantation site in El Bruc

Our cover crops expert visits the plantation site in El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Implementation actions, Volterra

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...

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21.04201718/10/2021
First trial with improved wicks started in El Bruc

First trial with improved wicks started in El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Creaf, Implementation actions, Volterra

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...

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20.04201713/11/2017
Unexpected cashcrop found in Cocoons at El Bruc

Unexpected cashcrop found in Cocoons at El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Cataluña, Cocoon, Communication actions, Creaf, Implementation actions, Monitoring activities, News, Volterra
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07.04201712/04/2017
Voluntary group of El Bruc (Catalonia) organizes communal reforestation

Voluntary group of El Bruc (Catalonia) organizes communal reforestation

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Communication actions

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...

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15.03201720/03/2017
Invitation to the final conference of LIFE Operation CO2

Invitation to the final conference of LIFE Operation CO2

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Creaf, Networking activities

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...

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14.03201718/10/2021
Start of the interviews and delivery of informative leaflets in El Bruc

Start of the interviews and delivery of informative leaflets in El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Communication actions, Creaf, Monitoring activities

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...

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13.03201718/10/2021
Opening event in El Bruc

Opening event in El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Communication actions, Creaf, Implementation actions, Volterra

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...

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10.03201720/03/2017
Placement of the informative panel in the demonstration area in Catalonia

Placement of the informative panel in the demonstration area in Catalonia

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Communication actions, Monitoring activities, Volterra

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...

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27.02201728/02/2017
Local awareness raising in El Bruc

Local awareness raising in El Bruc

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Communication actions

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...

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20.02201718/10/2021
The Catalonian forests suffer from summer droughts

The Catalonian forests suffer from summer droughts

By VolterraIn News, PressTags Catalonia, Communication actions, Creaf

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...

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04.02201715/11/2017
Invitation to the inauguration of the demonstration area in El Bruc, Cataluña

Invitation to the inauguration of the demonstration area in El Bruc, Cataluña

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Communication actions, Creaf, News, Volterra

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...

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18.01201724/01/2017
Monitoring visit to El Bruc by Volterra team

Monitoring visit to El Bruc by Volterra team

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Monitoring activities, Volterra

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...

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16.01201718/10/2021
Creaf announces the Life The Green Link project

Creaf announces the Life The Green Link project

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Communication actions, Creaf

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...

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09.12201624/01/2017
First video The Green Link: explanation of the Cocoon and Sensoterra

First video The Green Link: explanation of the Cocoon and Sensoterra

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, LLC, Preparatory actions, Volterra

First video The Green Link published on El Bruc planting Last week Volterra’s team was back at El Bruc to check on the plantation. We...

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07.12201615/02/2017
Installation of Sensoterra equipment in El Bruc, Catalonia

Installation of Sensoterra equipment in El Bruc, Catalonia

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Implementation actions, SENSOTERRA, Volterra

On the 7th of December, the team of Volterra went to the El Bruc plantation site in Catalonia to install the soil humidity sensors of Sensoterra....

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01.11201630/10/2017
Second planting at El Bruc underway

Second planting at El Bruc underway

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Creaf, Implementation actions, Volterra

Over the last few days the second planting in El Bruc at Masia Can Ollé got underway. Here both truffle inoculated oak trees and olives...

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20.10201618/10/2021
Continuation planting activities in Catalonia

Continuation planting activities in Catalonia

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Creaf, Implementation actions, LLC, Volterra

On the 20th of October, the plantation actions in El Bruc were continued by the coordination of Volterra and with assistance of LLC and Creaf....

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15.10201627/03/2017
First step in replication of the project in Catalonia

First step in replication of the project in Catalonia

By VolterraIn News, ReplicationTags Catalonia, Communication actions, Preparations for replication, Replication Catalonia, Volterra

On the 15th of October the team of Volterra visited Alella, in the province of Catalonia, to assist and help all the volunteers by planting...

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12.10201618/10/2021
Training and installation of Sensoterra in Catalonia

Training and installation of Sensoterra in Catalonia

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Creaf, LLC, Preparatory actions, SENSOTERRA, Volterra

On the 12th of October, the plantation in the area of Catalonia began. The team of LLC trained workers to learn how to plant trees...

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10.10201615/02/2017
Arrival of the seedlings in Catalonia

Arrival of the seedlings in Catalonia

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Creaf, LLC, Preparatory actions, Volterra

On the 10th of October, the plants from the nursery and the Cocoons which were sent by LCC arrived at El Bruc. This week we...

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25.09201618/10/2021
Cooperation with LIFE Montserrat in El Bruc, Catalonia

Cooperation with LIFE Montserrat in El Bruc, Catalonia

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Creaf, Networking activities, Preparatory actions

On the 22th of September, the team of CREAF met with the technical coordinator Leire Miñambres from the Barcelona provincial council of the LIFE Montserrat...

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30.07201618/10/2021
Recognition of the plantation area in El Bruc, Catalonia

Recognition of the plantation area in El Bruc, Catalonia

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, LLC, Preparatory actions, Volterra

On the 20th of July, the teams of CREAF and Volterra had a meeting in the planting area in El Bruc to design, plan and...

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12.07201618/10/2021
Project launch meeting at CREAF, Barcelona

Project launch meeting at CREAF, Barcelona

By VolterraIn NewsTags Biopoplar, Cabildo of Gran Canaria, Catalonia, CERTH, CIDE-CSIC, Creaf, LLC, Preparatory actions, Project management, UAL-CAESCG, Volterra

On the 12th and 13th of July, the The Green Link kick-off meeting was held at the facility of CREAF. During the meeting, each partner presented...

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07.07201618/10/2021
Networking event for LIFE projects promoting sustainable forest management

Networking event for LIFE projects promoting sustainable forest management

By VolterraIn NewsTags Catalonia, Communication actions, Networking activities, Preparatory actions

On Tuesday, 5th of July, representatives of the LIFE projects MONTSERRAT, LIFE OPERACIÓN CO2 and the recently started GREEN LINK met at the premises of CREAF to...

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