CREAF will represent the project consorition at the 9th World Conference on Ecological Restoration, convening virtually June 21-24, 2021. CREAF will be presenting “RESTORING DEGRADED...
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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....
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...
Invitation to the 1st Meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society & XIV AEET Meeting next Feb 2019
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Poster presented at TerraEnvision International Conference
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Second official meeting of the consortium in Almeria
Today we have celebrated the project´s second official meeting in Almeria. During the meeting a variety of topics was discussed, among them the procedures of scientific...
Second planting at El Bruc underway
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...
Continuation planting activities in Catalonia
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....
Training and installation of Sensoterra in Catalonia
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...
Arrival of the seedlings in Catalonia
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...
Cooperation with LIFE Montserrat in El Bruc, Catalonia
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...
Project launch meeting at CREAF, Barcelona
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...