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This project is spread across naturally saline sites (knowledge sites), where we will monitor biodiversity above and below-ground to unveil the role played by halophytes, and salt-affected farm sites (NbS implementation sites) where we will implement and evaluate halophyte-based saline NbS.

The geographical locations of the sites will allow to cover the broad range of challenges encountered in salt-affected areas and compare the impact of saline NbS across different regions and landscapes

Italy - Knowledge and NbS implementation site

Tunisia - Knowledge and NbS implementation site

The Netherlands - Knowledge and NbS implementation site

Spain - NbS implementation site

Portugal -  Knowledge site

Poland - Knowledge site
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Maremma National Park, Italy

The park host 700 hectares of wetlands that encompasses a mosaic of natural and semi-natural habitats (riparian vegetation, salt marshes, and brackish wetlands—as well as artificial environments like drainage canals and pastures). These landscapes are of great scientific and ecological importance, as both the habitats and many of the species they host have become rare or degraded along the Italian coastline due to pressures from tourism, residential development, and agricultural expansion.
The park is one of the last places where a traditional form of wild livestock farming of the Maremma cow, symbol of Maremma's rural heritage, is still practiced. 
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Sejoumi and Soliman saltmarshes, Tunisia
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Murcia, Spain
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Funded by the EU within the Biodiversa+ European Biodiversity initiative.

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