A team from APM Gorj participated between September 19-23, 2022 at the International and Ecology Network Europe conference, which took place in Cluj-Napoca. They presented the paper Terrestrial transport infrastructure impact on longitudinal connectivity of rivers – a case study on Gilort River, Romania. The mentioned paper was presented in the Practical Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities Related to Transport...
Author: Fishforlife
Works in progress
As we announced in a series of previous articles, but also on the project's Facebook page, in the area of the Gilort River Natura 2000 site, a series of afforestation and ecological reconstruction works are being carried out as part of the Fish For Life project. Thus, on November 10, the works aimed at planting saplings on the banks of the Gilort river, in the area of the Bengești-Ciocadia commune, were started. The objectives of these afforestation activities are to restore the connectivity of the riparian forests along the river and ensure the stabilization of the banks and the creation of buffer strips. Among the species used are ...
Participation SERE 2022
Between September 5-9, 2022, Invisible Nature representatives disseminated the results of the Fish For Life project at the 13th European Conference on Ecological Restoration - SERE2022. This took place in Alicante (Spain), the work presented was entitled Use of species – habitat relationships to assist for effective restoration actions (authors Cristian Tetelea, Alexandru Giurea, Istvan Falka). The poster of the paper is available attached. The United Nations Decade on ecosystems restoration: An opportunity to upscale restoration and to share good practices in Europe by 2030 session was also held during the conference. Dr. Cristian Tetelea (Invisible...
Meetings with decision makers
As I have told on every occasion, the implementation team of the FISH for LIFE project held, between March 2018 and February 2022, several meetings with decision-makers from the project area. Thus, meetings were held with representatives of the town halls of the localities that have lands included in the Natura 2000 Gilort River site, local and central authorities (Gorj County Council, Târgu Jiu National Roads Society, CFR Craiova, ANPM, local police), susceptible land owners to host ecological reconstruction activities (both bank consolidation works and reforestation), administrators of water bodies ...

