LIFE PanPuffinus! Shearwater Boat Trips 2024
6 August, 2024Another successful summer for our annual sunset shearwater boat trips!
XI Ornithology Congress and II Macaronesian Ornithology Conference in the Azores, Portugal
22-26 November, 2023The LIFE PanPuffinus! Portuguese team participates in the 11th edition of the Ornithology Congress in the Azores.
Steering Committee meeting in Spain
7-9 November, 2023Project Partners meet for their annual Steering Committee meeting in Blanes, Spain.
Project partner SPEA presents project at Sagres Birdwatching Festival & visits fish auction
31 October, 2023SPEA presents the project at the Sagres Birdwatching Festival, visits the fish auction.
LIFE PanPuffinus! Shearwater Boat Trips 2023
20 July, 2023Over 200 people join our annual summer adventure: success for the LIFE PanPuffinus! Shearwater Boat Trips 2023!
Sharing of experiences with Spanish and French fishermen
28 April, 2023LIFE PanPuffinus! Spanish partners share experiences with Spanish and French fishermen in Marseille on the mitigation of seabird bycatch in fishing gears
Project monitor visits Malta
17-20 April, 2023Dr Sara Luchetti, the project monitor, spent three days in Malta meeting the project teams in April 2023
Knowledge exchange between Portuguese and Maltese fishermen
10 February, 2023LIFE PanPuffinus! Portuguese partners and Portuguese fishermen visit Malta for a knowledge exchange
Steering Committee Meeting
25-26 October, 2022LIFE PanPuffinus! partners were hosted in Greece by the Hellenic Ornithological Society for the annual Steering Committee Meeting
BirdLife Malta Shearwater Boat Trips 2022
30 July, 2022Families with children join BirdLife Malta’s Shearwater Boat Trips – all five trips organised for summer 2022 fully-booked!
World Oceans Day
11 June, 2022LIFE PanPuffinus! and BirdLife Malta join other eNGOs to celebrate World Oceans Day 2022 at the Malta National Aquarium.
EU Ocean Week 2022
8-15 June, 2022French project partner LPO France participates in EU Ocean Week with a stall during the Ocean Fair held in Paris.
European Maritime Day Fair
21 May, 2022BirdLife Malta invites other eNGOs to celebrate European Maritime Day 2022 with a fair at Salina Nature Reserve.
LPO celebrates European Maritime Day 2022
21 May, 2022French project partner LPO welcomed visitors to Ile de Ré for European Maritime Day 2022.
Malta AgriFair 2022
20-22 May, 2022LIFE PanPuffinus! showcased during Malta’s first ever agricultural and fisheries fair.
Shearwater night walk
7 May, 2022The project team in Malta led a night walk to listen to the calls of nesting shearwaters.
Environmental education activity
23 April, 2022Project partners SPEA explained the main actions of the project to students in a school in Nazaré.
Bycatch engagement training
26 January, 2022Project partners SPEA (Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves) hosted an online workshop with the aim to ‘Train the Trainers’ that will engage the fishing community on bycatch.
LIFE PanPuffinus! showcased in French exhibition
5 January, 2022Between the start of the new year and the end of March, French project partners LPO France showcased the LIFE PanPuffinus! project at an exhibition held at l’Espace Nature des Salins d’Hyères, on the Mediterranean coast of France.
National Climate Change Conference
26 October, 2021Project Manager Manya Russo was invited to attend the national climate change conference held in Malta.
Biosecurity training workshop and Steering Committee Meeting
6-8 October, 2021In the first week of October, a biosecurity plan development training workshop led by RSPB was organised in Rochefort, France.
The Yelkouan Shearwater takes over at Science in the City 2021!
24-25 September, 2021The trials and tribulations of the Yelkouan Shearwater were the subject of a puppet show and a workshop for children held during this year’s Science in the City.
Stall on bycatch at the IUCN Congress
4-7 September, 2021Visitors to the IUCN Congress in Marseille (France) visited the stall on seabird bycatch to learn about this threat to seabirds through a photo exhibit, informative panels and a board game on seabirds.
Shearwater Boat Trips with LIFE PanPuffinus!
6-7 August, 2021On the first weekend of August we held our sunset shearwater boat trips for 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we only held two trips and to celebrate the launch of LIFE PanPuffinus! this year we offered the trips for free to our members.