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Birds equipped with GPS take flight from Capo Caccia as the protected area sees the start of a study that enables the monitoring of the movements of the European storm petrel

Birds fitted with GPS are taking flight from Capo Caccia. In the protected area, a study is getting under way that enables the monitoring of the movements of the European storm petrel. This is the first time in the Mediterranean that the technology o ...

A warm welcome to “Primo”! The Porto Conte Nature Reserve plays host for the first time to the nesting of a pair of Egyptian vultures

The Egyptian vulture born on the cliffs of Punta Cristallo in Alghero could only ever have been given one name: “Primo” (Italian for First). This is an exceptional event: in the whole of Italy, there are very few birds of this species, and only over ...

20th Anniversary of the Porto Conte Nature Reserve

Twenty years have passed since 26 February, 1999 – the date on which the Sardinian Regional Council approved, with Law No. 4, the establishment of the Porto Conte Regional Nature Reserve, the island’s first protected area. “Twenty years of protecting ...