A new report from the Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture has been launched titled “Mobile Pastoralism in the Mediterranean: arguments and evidence for policy reform and its role in combating climate change”. This report contains over 100 arguments detailing the benefits of mobile pastoralism to biodiversity, carbon storage, wildfire prevention, climate change, food security...
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Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture: Third technical meeting in Guadalaviar, Spain
The third technical meeting of the Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture took place in Guadalaviar in Aragon, Spain from the 11th to the 14th July 2016. The meeting was hosted by Trashumancia y Naturaleza, the Spanish partner of the Consortium and all member organizations participated, namely SPNL, DiversEarth, Yolda Initiative and WWF North Africa....
Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture: Second Technical meeting in Tunisia
The second technical meeting of the Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture, in which Med-INA is a member, took place in Dar Zaghouane, Tunisia from 18th to 20 th January 2016. Its first technical meeting which set the foundations for the smooth operation of the Consortium as a long standing, collaborative entity had taken place...
Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture
Med-INA has joined a consortium of national and international NGOs which have undertaken a project to assess and support cultural conservation practices in the Mediterranean Basin. Through this project it is aimed to reinforce traditional practices, techniques and ways of living harmoniously with nature as well as celebrating the ingenuity of people all across the...
Supporting cultural conservation practices in the Mediterranean
Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture
MedINA to participate in the 1st Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week in Montenegro
The 1st Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week will take place in Ulcinj, Montenegro, from 24 to 29 October and will bring together plant scientists, site managers, local populations and civil society organisations with the objective of building a network to conserve plants and cultural diversity across the Mediterranean region. Organised by the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean...
Photography Exhibition “On the Move”: Celebrating transhumance in the Mediterranean
One of the most important cultural and economic practices in the Mediterranean is traditional pastoralism and in particular transhumance. Even though its roots can be traced back to prehistoric times, transhumance is still very much alive across the Mediterranean basin. “On the Move”, a photographic journey through the lives and challenges faced by transhumant shepherds...
On the Move – A unique travelling photography exhibition on Transhumance in the Mediterranean opens at Musée Bardo
WWF North Africa and DiversEarth, on behalf of the Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture , announce the opening of On the Move at Musée Bardo in Tunis, on 19 July 2014. On the Move is a visual celebration of the lives and ecological knowledge of transhumant shepherds and nomadic pastoralists in the Mediterranean. The...
Photography Exhibition “On the Move|Faces” on mobile pastoralism to be hosted in Vovousa Festival
Vovousa Festival is an annual event that takes place in the village of Vovousa in Northern Pindos. This year it will take place from 14 to 21 of July and will present an interesting and varied programme, with workshops, concerts, exhibitions and other activities. MedINA in collaboration with INHERIT, the Management Body of Vikos-Aoos and...