Operation Wallace in Croatia – CROpwall 2019

Operation Wallace in Croatia - CROpwall is a project of the summer school of biological sciences. It was organized as an educational-expedition-research project of a multi-month volunteer camp funded by a donation from the British organization Operation Wallace, which emerged as an initiative of the academic community of the University of Oxford. The program is implemented in partnership with them, Janolus, the Marine Explorers Society 20.000 leagues and the Deep Blue Explorers Association. The year 2019 was the third year of the volunteer camp - for the first two years the CROpwall volunteer camp was located in the Mljet National Park and the Lastovo Islands Nature Park, while in the third year the camp was moved to Silba. The seabed of the island of Silba and the Silba reefs, which are located near the island in a westerly direction, are part of the Natura 2000 ecological network. The areas are...

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Operation Wallacea in Croatia – CROpwall 2018.

Operation Wallace in Croatia - CROpwall is a part of the Dinaric karst biodiversity course programe. Organized as an educational-expedition-research project of a multi-month volunteer camp funded by the donation of the British organization Operation Wallace, which originated as an initiative of the academic community of the University of Oxford. The program is implemented in partnership with them and the Deep Blue Explorers association. A Volunteer Camp in the second year of Cropwall was located in the National Park Mljet and the Nature Park of Lastovo, where more than 200 students around the world have passed the program of education and training of marine science research skills through biological research. Participants gained new knowledge and skills on the subject of sustainable lifestyles, proper management of natural resources, raising awareness of protected and endangered marine species and the marine ecosystem as a whole. In addition to this, the participants volunteers have...

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Operation Wallacea in Croatia – CROPWALL – Mljet 2017.

Operation Wallace in Croatia - CROpwall is a part of the project Dinaric karst biodiversity course. Organized as an educational-expedition-research project of a multi-month volunteer camp funded by the donation of the British organization Operation Wallace, which originated as an initiative of the academic community of the University of Oxford. Volunteer camp in the first year of Cropwall was located in the National Park Mljet, where more than 150 students around the world have passed the program of education and training the skills and methodologies of research of the marine environment and organisms. Participants gained new knowledge and skills on the subject of sustainable lifestyle, proper management of natural resources, raising awareness of protected and endangered marine species and the marine ecosystem as a whole. In addition to this, the participants volunteers have collected important data for science through their training and participated in the research of communities of sea...

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