Two new reports are published about the moth monitoring in Ria de Alvor and the garden of Cruzinha in 2014 and 2015, one in English and one in Portuguese. We have also uploaded the Moth photo guide that we have published before. This guide includes the macro moths in the Algarve and might help you to identify the moths you find around you! You can find them here.

A ROCHA Portugal attended the third project meeting in Edinburgh of the project ANHER (Erasmus+ 2014-1-PL-KA202-003565), in which we are involved together with five other European partners. The goal of this project is to combine natural and cultural heritage in the work field. Nature and cultural professionals work in the same landscape, but often they are not working together. In order to increase mutual understanding, this project will develop an online course on the integration of natural and cultural heritage. In this project, A

In 2014 we started a new project of monitoring moths with the goal of knowing the richness and abundance of species in the different habitats of the Ria de Alvor Natura 2000 site and of publishing the results of acquired data and research. Six sites were selected in the main habitats of this area: dunes, marshes and agricultural fields, two sites in each habitat. Each site was monitored once a month with a moth trap type ‘Heat Trap’, which has an UV-lamp. A total

A ROCHA Portugal is involved on the transnational EU Erasmus+ project ANHER (2014-1-PL-KA202-003565), in partnership with the Adam Mickiewicz University of Pozna?, the University of Amsterdam, Landward Research Ltd and the organisations Aranzadi and InEuropa. The project focuses on the integration of archaeological and the natural heritage. The aim is that professionals in both domains understand the influence of natural heritage on archaeological heritage and vice versa. This project will result in didactic material, in amongst others English and Portuguese. The project started in