DG Fisheries And Maritime Affairs is the Directorate-General responsible for the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and for developing a future maritime policy for the EU at the European Commission. The CFP covers all fishing activities, the farming of living aquatic resources, and the processing and marketing of fisheries products, on the legal basis of Article 33 (ex 39) of the Treaty establishing the European Community. Since the first decisions adopted in 1970, the CFP has been through many changes, and its current form centres on four main areas: the conservation and management of marine resources, fisheries relations and agreements with non-member countries and international organisations, structural measures, and the common market organisation for fishery and aquaculture products. The major challenge facing the CFP today is to strike a sustainable balance between available marine resources and their exploitation. ... [Information of the supplier]
Im KORA sind Forschungsprojekte zusammengefasst, die sich mit der Ökologie von Raubtieren in der Kulturlandschaft und ihrem Zusammenleben mit den Menschen beschäftigen. Das betrifft vor allem die großen, ehemals ausgerotteten Arten wie Luchs und Wolf. Die Aufgabe des Programms KORA ist, zu aktuellen Problemen im Zusammenhang mit der Erhaltung oder dem Management von Raubtieren die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen für umsetzbare Lösungen zu erarbeiten. ... [Information des Anbieters]
For a long time breeding Bearded Vultures in captivity seemed almost impossible. Before the first successful reproductions at the Alpenzoo Innsbruck it was only in the twenties that a pair at Sofia Zoo had successfully raised chicks. One of the main problems was the difficulty in distinguishing male and female Bearded Vultures by external features. This hampered the formation of pairs. Because in the case when two males are put together, these behave like a pair, but, obviously, they produce no eggs. Today, by using new techniques, sex determination has become much easier. Within the project, all young Bearded Vultures are raised exclusively by parent birds. Raising by human "foster-parents" would lead to irreversible behavioural deficiencies. Only through the cooperation of zoos from all over Europe did the reintroduction project become possible. In some of these zoos today "grandchildren" of the first Bearded Vulture pairs are already breeding. Currently about 100 Bearded Vultures belong to the breeding stock of the project. The four release sites - situated at a distance of about 200-300 km from each other - are almost all in national parks or nature reserves. Bearded Vultures once occurred at each site. Also today, virtually unchanged natural habitats and extensive cliffs provide optimal conditions for Bearded Vultures. Large populations of chamois, red deer and ibex are a particular feature of the four sites. ... [Information of the supplier]
Amphibien und Reptilien gehören zu den bedrohtesten Tierarten in der Schweiz. 90 % aller in der Schweiz vorkommenden Arten stehen auf der Roten Liste und sind mehr oder weniger stark gefährdet. Die Koordinationsstelle für Amphibien- und Reptilienschutz in der Schweiz (karch) hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Ursachen und Mechanismen dieses Arten- und Bestandesrückganges umfassend zu untersuchen und Massnahmen zu ergreifen, um dieser Entwicklung entgegenzuwirken. ... [Information des Anbieters]
Going around Italy, in the right season (spring, in particular), you have a good chance to find one of the italian terrestrial orchids. The best thing to do, at this point, is to use a photographic camera and, possibly, a macro lens, to get a picture of the orchid spike and leave the plant where you have found it. The people of the "Italian Group for the Research on Wild Orchids" will be pleased because the complex natural history of this family and the continuous attack due to the anthropic use of our land lead to some danger of extinction of many orchids species. In the "Genera" window, you will find a list of the genera: clicking on the name will show a typical image in the"Image" window. The label of the image is clickable and will enter the "genus page"; if the image is clickable, this link will start a sequence of different images: this may be useful for the genera containing many species with different aspects. ... [Information of the supplier]
