Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» Vercelli rice fields - Environmental restoration and...

Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE»Vercelli rice fields - Environmental restoration and sustainable

management of Vercelli rice fieldsFriday, June 21st 2013

Patronized by:

MINISTERO DELL’AMBIENTEE DELLA TUTELA DEL TERRITORIO E DEL MARE

MINISTERO DELLE POLITICHE AGRICOLEALIMENTARI E FORESTALI

C. Lenti, Foto Archivio P.F.Po vc-al

Raffaella PaganoSettore Tutela Ambientale, Ufficio Tutela

Biodiversità Project Manager ECORICE

Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE»

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

BUDGET : € 1.441.900,00EU COFINANCING (50%): 720.950,00DURATION: sept. 1st 2010 – (sept. 1st 2013) February 1st 2014



Coordinating beneficiary: Provincia di Vercelli – Settore Tutela AmbientaleDavide Gilardino – Assessore all’Ambiente e all’AgricolturaPiero Gaetano Vantaggiato – director / project coordinatorRaffaella Pagano / project managerAmanda Forte / Project accountantEmanuela Garino / technical supportFrancesco Pellicciari / administrative-technical support

Associated beneficiaries: Ente di gestione delle aree protette del Parco del Po vercellese-alessandrino e Bosco delle Sorti della Partecipanza di TrinoEnte di gestione delle aree protette del Parco del Po e della collina torinese Partecipanza dei Boschi di Trino



Farming practices allegedly risk to challenge the ecological role of rice paddies.

Rural landscape banalization and fragmentation and decline of natural elements threaten the surviving of species of Community



Objective

Project aims at increasing the number and the extension of high natural value areas;

it aims also at improving the relationship between high natural value areas and a modern rice farming.



Expected results

- Improvement of ecological network through the involvement of stakeholders -Improvement of hardwoods management for heronries- Increase of high natural value areas-Sharing of best available technologies for rice agro-ecosystem management with regard to nature safeguard- Sensibilization about Natura 2000 network



A.1.1 habitat 91F0 restoration_Preparatory's study

A.1.2 habitat 9160 restoration_Preparatory's study

A.1.3 Bosco della Partecipanza forestal requalification_Preparatory's study

A.2.1 Artificial springs' restoration_Preparatory's study

A.2.2 restoration of marshy habitat into SPA S.Genuario_Preparatory's study

A.2.3 Stepping stones creation_Preparatory's study

A.2.4 restoration of a wetland area into SPA Bosco Partecipanza_Preparatory's study

A.3.1 forestal management practices_Preparatory's study

A.3.2 Quercus ruber eradication_Preparatory's study

A.4 National stakeholders inventory



B.1 land purchase

B.2 land purchase

B.3 land purchase



C.1.1 habitat 91F0 restoration

C.1.2 habitat 9160 restoration

C.1.3 Bosco della Partecipanza restoration

C.1.4 habitat 91E0* and 9160 restoration

C.2.1 Artificial springs' restoration

C.2.2 restoration of marshy habitat into SPA S.Genuario

C.2.3 Stepping stones creation

C.2.4 restoration of a wetland area into SPA Bosco Partecipanza

C.3.1 forestal management practices_

C.3.2 Quercus ruber eradication_



D.1 Ecological Network office

D.2 Layman's report

D.3 Publications

D.4 Noticeboards

D.5 Website

D.6 Open source apps

D.7.1 local Workshops

D.7.2 National workshop on rice growing

D.7.3 National ECO-rice Newsletter

D.7.4 International Workshop - RRN

D.8 Dissemination activities

D.9 Educational game



E.1 Forestal monitoring

E.2.1 nature restoration actions' monitoring

E.2.2 socio-cultural monitoring

E.3 Project Management

E.4

E.5

After-LIFE management Plan

IRFEN – International rice filed network_

Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» Vercelli rice fields - Environmental restoration and...

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