Presentation of LIFE BACCATA in Ribadeo (Lugo)

The LIFE BACCATA project was presented in Ribadeo (Lugo) on the occasion of the conferences held on March 23, 2018 at the Hernán Naval Municipal Auditorium regarding Atlantic-Pyrenean Biosphere Reserves.

These sessions have been organized by the Spanish MaB Committee of UNESCO. Members of the Scientific and Management Committees of the Spanish MaB programme participated and, on this account, addressed a series of projects, actions and experiences posed within the present Reserves.

As a sample of the projects developed within the territorial scope of these Reserves, the Agricultural Biodiversity and Rural Development Institute (IBADER) from the Campus Terra of the Santiago de Compostela University attended this meeting to present the LIFE BACCATA project. The objectives and planned action measures were explained in the presentation, as well as the expected results. In addition, the preliminary results of the genetic sampling developed by the project were presented, commenting as well the most outstanding actions of the project for the current year, 2018.