As part of networking activities, our LIFE project offered 20 Cocoons to LIFE MycoRestore to help their project restoring a Dehesa in Salamanca (La Alamedilla)...
Archive for tag: Cocoon

Technical Seminar (online) about the Cocoon Ecotechnology
On the 12th of June, project partners organised a technical seminar dedicated to “The Cocoon: an innovative methodology for ecological restoration and rainfed agriculture“. The...

More than 60 participants in online LIFE The Green Link seminar
We’re currently online in the Ecosystem restoration and Cocoon session. Vicenç Carabassa del CREAF is explaining the details of the LIFE project The Green Link....

Replication in Gran Canaria with culture and ecology association IMIDAUEN
Last Saturday, March the 9th, a planting day took place in Aula en la Naturaleza de Las Tirajanas. Only native species were planted in collaboration...

El Bruc Video – About our project
Learn about our LIFE The Green Link project “restore desertified areas with an innovative tree growing method across the Mediterranean border to increase resilience” from...

Final Conference Video
We are glad to present “Cocoon” ecotechnology, as well as the main results of our LIFE project and the other experiences in the use of...

Cocoon’s use increases by 100% reforestation success
New video in Youtube, interview by Canarias7! (SPA) Cabildo tests the efficacy of a biodegradable bucket that provides water to the plant in Artenara. The...

Awareness event to interest groups in La Aldea
Last 4th of March, during a workshop day of the course 2019/2020 Environmental and Sustainability Commission, a presentation about the objectives and results of LIFE...

Successful final conference celebration in Barcelona
The conference promoted the debate on demonstrating the feasibility of land restoration through the Cocoon technology. 85 people attended the event, including project partners, interested...

Final conference LIFE The Green Link in Barcelona
LIFE THE GREEN LINK FINAL CONFERENCE “FACING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION AND MANAGEMENT By: Creaf On the 17th February 2020...

Networking between The Green Link and Goprofor
By: CREAF The new LIFE Goprofor project designs manuals with good practices for the promotion of biodiversity. The idea is to include Cocoon and other...

25ha of new agroforestry with Montado Freixo do Meio
25ha of new agroforestry in Portugal, thanks to the Montado Freio do Meio cooperative! Visualizza questo post su Instagram What a great day! BIG...
Great planting day in Portugal!
Visualizza questo post su Instagram Great planting day in Portugal. Thanks team @freixodomeio for your interest in Cocoons #TheGreenLink Un post condiviso da...

Organizing next Replication Activity in Portugal
Volterra travels to Freixo do Meio study the land and organize the replication activities that are going to be carried out on the farm. Two...

Another visit to the Government of Aragon to promote future replication
by: Volterra Today, Sven Kallen de Volterra, had the opportunity to speak with the newly elected advisor Joaquin Olona (Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Environment...

Networking presentation at LIFE Forest CO2 conference
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”,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

¡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)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Visit of Eco.ser
Yesterday (10th December 2018) we received the visit of Eco.ser srl team, a Company active in in the reuse of agroindustrial muds; we use this occasion to...

Celebrating National Tree Day in Italy
Celebrating National Tree Day in Italy On 21 and 22 November 2018, Catanzaro hosted the celebrations for the “ National Tree Day” organized by the...

Successful replication project celebrated in Matamorisca
Successful replication project celebrated in Matamorisca Initially started as a replication activity, the Matamorisca planting was supported by Leaseplan, and future projects will be fully...

Tree planting together with Leaseplan and Land Life Company
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...

Replanting of olives and biochar experiment in El Bruc
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...

Networking and Dissemination in Ciudad Real
Networking and dissemination in Ciudad Real Successful participation in the Joint International Conference of SECF + AEER working groups IV Reunión del Grupo de Trabajo...

Mr. Franco Fazio´s interview in a RAI Uno program
In the following video there is the report made by the RAI Uno program “Linea Verde”, aired Saturday 29th September 2018, about the Cocoon method...

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 Green Link in Catalonia
The Emys Foundation plants several trees using the Cocoon system in Girona (Spain). .

Scheduling of the replication activities-Meeting with Stakeholders
During September, CERTH team organized meetings with stakeholders in order to arrange the details about the replication activities of cocoon plantations. More specific CERTH visited...

SAVE THE DATE!
Tuesday 23th of October, at the Botanical Garden of Rome, our partners Van Leijen Srl and Biopoplar Srl organise the Conference “facing desertification in the...

The Cocoon system in the television program “Linea Verde”
Mr. Franco Fazio, technician of the company Biopoplar srl, who manages the Italian experimental area of the The Green Link project, was interviewed by the...

First replication in Italy
Biopoplar srl, Italian manager of LIFE – The Green Links, have signed a cooperation agreement aimed to the creation of the first replication in Italy in...

Presentation of the Cocoon to the thermal and liquids department of the Carlos III Polytechnic University in Leganes (Madrid)
Janire Sonneveld has drawn the attention of her mechanical engineering professors towards the Cocoon. Janire is hoping to do a technical improvement to the Cocoon,...

Article on The Green Link in the Italian magazine Sherwood
Magazine Sherwood – Foreste ed Alberi Oggi (Sherwood – Forests and Trees Today), main Italian magazine for the forestry sector, has published in its last...

Checking the health of our trees and Cocoons in replication project
Today checking the health of our trees and Cocoons in Life #thegreenlink replication project. Thanks to the recent rain everything is looking splendid! @landlifecompany Una...

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

Visit of the people in charge of the Emys Foundation
On June 22nd, CREAF members met with forest owners and members of the Emys Foundation. They visited the planted areas, the green covers have grown after...

Volterra presents the Cocoon in the Municipality of Aguilar de Campoo
Egbert Sonneveld from Volterra visited the Municipality of Aguilar de Campoo on June 21st to present the Cocoon and the tree plantations that are done...

Plantation with Cocoon by neighboring volunteers of Matamorisca (Palencia)
The neighbors of Matamorisca, municipality of Aguilar de Campoo, animated by the President of the neighborhood council, Santiago Guerrero Martínez, have planted on June 16...

Visit of Allasia Plant Magna Grecia to Life Green Link replication site in Palencia Spain
Francesco Fazio and his son Giuseppe visited the site of Matamorisca in Palencia to see a state-of-the-art plantation with Cocoons and traditional side by side....

LandLifeCompany applies tags to identify trees for monitoring
Gautham Ramachandra and Ton Janmaat, respectively ecologist and data analysis specialist from LLC visited on June 4th the planting site in Aguilar in Spain to...

Information workshop on LIFE project results related to the agricultural sector in Athens/ Titania Hotel
On Friday 1st June 2018, Mr. Kourkoumpas participated in the information workshop organized by Ministry of Environment and Energy and Green Fund in the framework...

Visit of students of Mixed Training and Employment Programs to Matamorriscas
Students of Mixed Programs of Formation and Employment “La Bárcena III: Parks and Gardens” and “Tablares: forest exploitation V” visited the replication area located in...

Replication in Matamorisca.
During the months of May and April, the Volterra team has frequently traveled to Matamorisca, in northern Palencia, to supervise the reforestation work that has...

The forestry departments of the Junta of Castilla y Leon in Valladolid and in Palencia visit the plantation in Matamorisca (Palencia)
On May 23th the heads of the forestry departments visited the site. From Valladolid JJavier Ezquerra, Juan Manuel Calvo and from Palencia María Dolores Ruiz...

Meeting for the study of an innovative method in the reforestation of areas with desertification risk
On the Sunday edition of the Calabrian local newspaper Il Reventino was published the below article about the meeting of Life The Green Link commitee....

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

Technical seminar into the framework of the project LIFE Green Link
On Wednesday 7th March 2018, the 1st technical seminar for the LIFE Green Link project organized by Centre of Research and Technology Hellas/ Chemical Process...

Interest for Cocoon in International Quarry conference
Today Vicenç Carabassa of Creaf presented The Green Link with a poster at the international conference Quarry Alive in Évora, Portugal. Many participants showed interest...

Start with ambitious replication in Matamorisca (Palencia)
Landlifecompany and Volterra have started to plant trees as a carbon compensation project for the car leasing company Leaseplan. On 20 hectares about 15.000 trees...

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) visits The Green Link
Today a group of 5 representatives of United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) visited the Almeria planting site as part of their yearly field visits...

Visit to the experimental field in Calabria: soil erosion due to excessive rainfall
Tuesday 17th of April Valerio Crescenzo, Biopoplar’s technical manager, visited the experimental field in San Marco Argentano (Calabria, Italy) to verify its condition and assist...

Replication trial taking shape with private sector support
Recently we were in Matamorrisca to develop a new replication project. Thanks to the cooperation with Landlife Company we obtained interest from a Dutch company...

Stakeout of the land in Padilla de Abajo
On Thursday, March 15, the Volterra team met with members of the municipality of Padilla de Abajo, UBUVerde, and Fundación Oxigeno in Padilla de Abajo...

Delivery of 100 cocoons to the president of the Heredad de Aguas de Arucas y Firgas
The LIFE The Green Link project, through the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and GESPLAN, has supplied 100 cocoons to the president of the Heredad de...

Plantation with Cocoons in Campo Maior (Portugal)
Today we dedicated to planting trees in Campo Maior Portugal, figs in this case, with Cocoon as part of the replication activities of the proyect...

Participation in the international conference Agrotica 2018 in Thessaloniki
On 2nd February, Mr Kourkoumpas participated in a conference organized by CERTH and CRES. Within his presentation about the restoration of abandoned land areas, he...

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....

Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre plants in Campanarios de Azaba (Salamanca) with Coocons
On January 30th Egbert Sonneveld from Volterra travelled to the famous property of FNyH supported by Life ‘Club de Fincas’ to plant with the renewed...

New monitoring visit to El Bruc by Volterra & CREAF
Today, Volterra founders Sven Kallen and Egbert Sonneveld and CREAF’s project manager Vicenç Carabassa visited the trial fields in El Bruc, Catalonia. It was a...

Delivery of 100 Cocoons to the rural tourism company TAMADABA S.L.
The Green Link project, through the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and GESPLAN, had delivered 100 cocoons to the rural tourism company, TAMADABA S.L., which manages...

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...

Cocoon presentation to Itacyl
Egbert Sonneveld met José Antonio Rubio and Enrique Barajas of the Woody Crops and Vegetables division of Itacyl in Valladolid. The question was to find...

Students of agrarian institute instructed on climate change and innovative forestry techniques for reforestation of abandoned areas
Today, students of the Agrarian Department of the Istituto Superiore L. Costanzo di Decollatura (Cosenza, Region of Calabria, Italy) started a two days educational event...

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...

Volterra visits Landlifecompany in Amsterdam on November 30th
Egbert Sonneveld visited the LLC head office to meet with Harrie Lövenstein and Charlotte Jongejan to discuss the results of the trials in Spain and...

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...

Also Valencia sows cover crop
This week the recently mixed cover crops were sown in a dispersed area of the Tous plantation. Lots of underbush makes it difficult to sow...

Cover crop mix sowed by Volterra in El Bruc
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...

Volterra is preparing the cover crop seeds in El Bruc
We have had a bit of rain, hopefully soon we will get more. In any case it is time to prepare the seeds for the...

Monitoring and control visit in Tous
Monitoring and control visit in Tous On October 18th 2017, the CSIC-CIDE team visited the Tous demonstration area in Valencia, in order to monitor and control...

Local awareness activity and stakeholder consultation in the demonstrative area of Valencia
Local awareness activity and stakeholder consultation in the demonstrative area of Valencia Surveys in the demonstrative area of Valencia The CSIC-CIDE team visited the technical staff...

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...

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...

Attendance to the international seminar: How to face climate change
Attendance to the international seminar: How to face climate change On the first of February 2017, Sven Kallen and Egbert Sonneveld participated at the Seminar ¿How...