Useful links

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/ - European Commission - Environment - Life Programme. Here you can found information on the LIFE programme, the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action.

To read more on invasive alien species

www.issg.org - The Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) is a global network of scientific and policy experts on invasive species, organized under the auspices of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

www.europe-aliens.org - Delivering Alien Invasive Species In Europe (DAISIE) is a project funded by the sixth framework programme of the European Commission providing information on biological invasions in Europe.

http://www.cbd.int/invasive/ - (CBD) Convention on Biological Diversity and invasive alien species.

http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ - European database on invasive alien species.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/invasiveali... - Webpage of the European Commission on invasive alien species.

http://sweb01.dbv.uniroma1.it/cirbfep/pubblicazion... - Non-native and invasive vascular flora of the Italian regions.

http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/nature/be... - Council of Europe / Bern Convention - Expert group on invasive alien species.

http://www.eppo.int/INVASIVE_PLANTS/ias_plants.htm - EPPO – European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organisation. Expert group on invasive alien plants.

http://www.fao.org/forestry/aliens/en/ - FAO and invasive alien species.

Life Projects on invasive alien species

http://www.lifepuffinustavolara.it/?lang=en - Project LIFE+ “Puffinus Tavolara”. A project to protect the Yelkouan shearwater by eradicating and controlling invasive alien species on Tavolara Island.

http://www.pelagicbirds.eu/ - Conservation of the main European population of Scopoli's shearwater and other pelagic birds of Pelagie Islands.

http://www.berlengas.eu/ - The project LIFE Berlengas will contribute to the sustainable management of the Berlengas Special Protection Area (SPA), aiming the conservation of its habitats, seabird populations and endemic plants.

www.rossoscoiattolo.eu - Project Life Rosso Scoiattolo EC-SQUARE to protect the red squirrel in Piedmont, Lombardy and Liguria.

http://usavereds.eu/it_IT/ - Management of grey squirrel in Umbria: conservation of red squirrel and preventing loss of biodiversity in Apennines.

Projects for the conservation of habitat and species in the islands around the world

http://www.islandconservation.org/ - Island conservation.

http://milliondollarmouse.org.nz/ - Million Dollar Mouse. Project for the eradication of mice from the Antipodes Islands (New Zealand).

Animal species

Animal species

Eradication of invasive alien animals (like rats and goats).

Palmarola, Ventotene
Biosecurity

Biosecurity

Implementing a strong biosecurity effort to prevent rat reinvasion.

Ponza, Palmarola, S. Stefano, Ventotene, Zannone
Plant species

Plant species

Eradication of invasive alien plants (Carpobrotus sp.pl.).

Palmarola, Santo Stefano, Ventotene
Habitats

Habitats

Fencing of key land plot on Zannone to exclude wild alien ungulates (mouflons) to restore native habitats (holm oak forest). 

Zannone