A new scientific fishing campaign took place between August 7-11, on the Gilort River and its tributaries: Galbenu, Blahnita and Ciocadia. The project team involved in this action was coordinated by the specialist in ichthyology, Dr. Adrian Ionașcu. Scientific fishing represents an extremely important stage that is the basis of the monitoring of the fish and macroinvertebrate population, after the implementation of the ecological reconstruction measures on the Gilort River. The scientific fishing campaign was carried out by electrofishing and releasing the captured specimens. The team involved in this extremely laborious and demanding activity spent around ...
Tag: Fish for Life
Ecological reconstruction camps
The ecological reconstruction camps are designed to promote the scientific and practical basis for the ecological reconstruction of rivers among young people in Romania who are pursuing a career in nature conservation, water management, resource management or landscape design. By organizing two camps within the FISH for LIFE project, we want to contribute to the expansion of opportunities for continuous education of young people and to supplement the lack of specialization programs dedicated to ecological reconstruction in Romania. What do we aim for? The camps are not explanatory sessions or scientific conferences on the topic of ecological reconstruction, but practical work sessions...
Story of Gilort River
The story of the Gilort River is a magazine that our team started to edit in the summer of 2022, to contribute to the information campaign for the residents of the cities located in or near the Gilort River Natura 2000 site. We have taken this decision to increase the impact of awareness activities and reach a segment of the public that cannot be informed through online platforms. We aim to publish the magazine twice a year (June and December). As you can see from the first two..
Participation IENE 2022
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...
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