02 October 2017
The CARE-MEDIFLORA team meet for their project meeting and joint field trip in Crete.
13 July 2017
The third joint field trip of the project took place in Sicily from 6 to 8 July 2017. The sunny and hot biggest Mediterranean island hosted the CARE-MEDIFLORA team in its full composition. More than 20 botanists and conservation specialists participated in the 3-day field work, exploring some of the most beautiful sites of eastern Sicily.
11 July 2018
Ex situ conservation techniques are not yet sufficiently known in some institutions in the South and East of the Mediterranean. In order to help fill this gap, IUCN-Med as part of the the IPAMed project (Important Plant Areas of the Mediterranean Region), in collaboration with CIHEAM Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh) in Crete and Hortus Botanicus Karalitanus (HBK) in Sardinia as part of the CARE-MEDIFLORA project, have offered to representatives of 11 partner institutions from 7 countries of the South and East of the Mediterranean practical trainings on the application of these techniques.
20 June 2017
A joint meeting of GENMEDA members (Network of Mediterranean Plant Conservation Centres) and CARE-MEDIFLORA project was organized in Rome on 18 May 2017.
13 June 2017
The CARE-MEDIFLORA team in Balearic Islands (Sóller Botanic Garden, JBS) is working on one of the CARE-MEDIFLORA in situ conservation actions, the introduction of Myosurus minimus L. in Mallorca.