Valbiska, a juvenile loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), has successfully completed its recovery at our Sea Turtle Rescue Centre. After seven months of recovery from a deep wound on the neck, today it returned to the sea. Such …
Read moreThe President of the Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation, Jelena Basta, becomes the Croatian ambassador of the European Atlas of the Seas, an ocean literacy tool. With our core mission dedicated to marine environment protection …
Read moreWithin the activities of the Marine Turtle Rescue Center, we collect the data on dead sea turtles as well. Each dead individual is a source of data useful in monitoring of their presence and movement in the Adriatic …
Read moreValbiska, a juvenile loggerhead sea turtle that has been successfully recovering for the past four months from a deep wound caused by a skin incision due to entanglement in a net or litter, has not been lonely lately. …
Read moreSpatial information is of a crucial importance for the effective conservation management of sea turtle populations and identification of high-used habitats. Our project partners from University of Primorska have developed a new device that uses Snapshot GPS system …
Read moreTogether with the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, we collected data on the recreational boat noise source levels on the 22nd and 25th of October 2020 as part of the Soundscape project. This will be the first pilot …
Read moreOn Friday, 25th of September 2020, the Blue World Institute organized a workshop in Mali Lošinj entitled ‘Open Day for divers and fishermen’. The main reason for this event was the presentation of a prototype device for marine …
Read moreThe center of public interest in the Mediterranean and beyond is the currently unsuccessful attempt to rescue second sperm whale that has become entangled in a drift net near the island of Salina in the archipelago of the …
Read moreOn Wednesday, July 1st, we celebrated our traditional Dolphin Day, the 28th in a row! This time, in a somewhat more modest edition, due to the uncertain situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, we organized a series of activities …
Read moreThe World Sea Turtle Day – 16th of June, was celebrated at the Blue World Institute as a part of the activities of the LIFE Euroturtles project. Therefore, we organized interactive educational workshop on the excursion boat „Krško“ …
Read moreAs we welcomed June, we also returned to work from our office in Veli Lošinj and we opened LMEC after being closed for public for 2 and a half months. We have taken all the precaution measures, cleaned …
Read moreAlthough the original idea was to introduce our youngest members to the City Library of Mali Lošinj, and to take a closer look at the Regional Library Veli Lošinj, to meet the librarian, and to present books for …
Read moreAt the beginning of January 2020, we started the implementation of the project “A new view of the Lošinj archipelago”, financed by the European Union from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund within the framework of the FLAG …
Read moreLast preparations that included testing of the equipment used for acoustic monitoring of underwater noise equipment, implemented within the Soundscape project funded through the EU CBC Programme Interreg Italy-Croatia, have been undertaken. The first training was organized on …
Read moreThe ‘marGnet’ project team members from Blue World Institute participated on 5th of February at the Mid-term Scientific Meeting hosted by CNR-ISMAR in Venice. The aims of this event was to present the mid-term achievments of the ‘marGnet’ …
Read moreOn January 23th 2020 in CNR ISMAR laboratories in Venice (Arsenale), the partners of the Interreg Italy Croatia project “SOUNDSCAPE: soundscapes in the Northern Adriatic Sea and their impact on marine biological resources ” have done testing of …
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