As part of fieldwork carried out in spring 2022 by MedINA partners Dr. Erwin Bergmeier, Professor at the Department of Vegetation & Phytodiversity Analysis of the University of Göttingen, Germany, and Dr. Stefan Meyer, a researcher at the same University, new and remarkable floristic records for the flora of Lemnos, but also of Greece, were...
Terra Lemnia project organised an educational activity on the 12th of November, when 22 high school students of the Department of Agriculture of Moudros Vocational High School participated in an oak planting field trip, completing the first phase of the activity by MedINA’s team. First, the students collected fallen acorn seeds from the forest of...
Supporting traditional agro-pastoral practices in Lemnos island
Celebrating World Wetlands Day on February 2, the Terra Lemnia project in collaboration with the Hellenic Ornithological Society and under the auspices of MedWet, organized a series of targeted educational activities in two primary schools in Lemnos. On February 6, Roula Triggou, MSc Forester-Environmentalist and Coordinator for educational and maintenance actions of the Hellenic Ornithological...
The Conservatoire du Littoral invited MedINA to present the experience of the Terra Lemnia project in the technical workshop on “Protection and promotion of island heritage”, that was held in Cannes on December 11th – 13th. The workshop was held during the 2nd annual meeting of SMILO (Small Islands Organisation) and was jointly organized by...
On Friday 9th November, with great success, the Terra Lemnia project’s Biodiversity Core Group (BCG) met in Athens for its second year kick off meeting. The meeting’s objective was twofold, to share and assess the progress made in the first year of the project and set specific goals and tasks for the year to follow....
An capacity building workshop on sustainable pastoral practices and artisanal cheese making was held in Portianou of Lemnos from 18-21 of October 2018 as part of the Terra Lemnia project. The workshop was organized in collaboration with the Agricultural University of Athens and ran through four evenings with different topics each day. On the first...
Organized by Slow Food, the Region of Piedmont and the City of Turin, Terra Madre Salone del Gusto is an international gastronomy exhibition that takes places every two years in Turin, bringing together food producers and artisans from across the world. This year the exhibition took place from the 20 to 24 September. Stefanos Dodouras...
The Terra Lemnia project aims to conserve the sustainable, traditional agro-pastoral practices of Lemnos island in the North Aegean, Greece and to demonstrate their valuable role in supporting both biodiversity conservation and modern day green development, through research and on the ground actions, in collaboration with Lemnian organisations and producers. This summer the project was...
