Dall’ estate 2020 l’associazione Filicudi Wildlife Conservation ha richiesto alla Guardia Costiera di Lipari di effettuare un intervento di messa in sicurezza di due aree molto importanti dal punto di vista della fragilità ambientale perchè enormemente impattate dal turismo nautico durante i mesi estivi: la Grotta del Bue Marino nell’isola di Filicudi e la Grotta...
Few information is available on fin marks and movements of Mediterranean bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821), along the Italian coast, although significant photo-identification efforts took place in several areas. In this study, photographic data (833 images) of 370 dolphins collected by different organizations from 2003 to 2018 across six different areas in Sicily (Southern...
Information on movements and connectivity among populations of animals is important for the delineation of units to conserve, so that demographic parameters, such as abundance, fecundity and mortality, can be placed in an appropriate population and conservation context. Common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are often considered relatively ‘resident’ and demonstrating strong site fidelity to specific...
Marine turtles are key indicator species of ecosystem function and environmental health, however, many of their life-history features remain cryptic. Particularly, the understanding of their year-round feeding habits is critical to establish the effect of contaminants exposure through the marine food web and their adverse health consequences. Here, 24 Mediterranean loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) with problems...
