Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» Vercelli rice fields - Environmental restoration and sustainable management of Vercelli rice fields Friday, June 21st 2013 Cambiare l’immagine (tasto dx->cambia immagine) secondo l’argomento del proprio intervento C. Lenti, Foto Archivio P.F.Po vc-al Patronized by: MINISTERO DELLE POLITICHE AGRICOLE ALIMENTARI E FORESTALI Raffaella Pagano Settore Tutela Ambientale, Ufficio Tutela Biodiversità Project Manager ECORICE MINISTERO DELL’AMBIENTE E DELLA TUTELA DEL TERRITORIO E DEL MARE

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» BUDGET : € 1.441.900,00 EU COFINANCING (50%): 720.950,00 DURATION: sept. 1st 2010 – (sept. 1st 2013) February 1st 2014 Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» Coordinating beneficiary: Provincia di Vercelli – Settore Tutela Ambientale Davide Gilardino – Assessore all’Ambiente e all’Agricoltura Piero Gaetano Vantaggiato – director / project coordinator Raffaella Pagano / project manager Amanda Forte / Project accountant Emanuela Garino / technical support Francesco Pellicciari / administrative-technical support Associated beneficiaries: Ente di gestione delle aree protette del Parco del Po vercellese-alessandrino e Bosco delle Sorti della Partecipanza di Trino Ente di gestione delle aree protette del Parco del Po e della collina torinese Partecipanza dei Boschi di Trino Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» Farming practices allegedly risk to challenge the ecological role of rice paddies. Rural landscape banalization and fragmentation and decline of natural elements threaten the surviving of species of Community Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» Objective Project aims at increasing the number and the extension of high natural value areas; it aims also at improving the relationship between high natural value areas and a modern rice farming. Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» Expected results Improvement of ecological network through the involvement of stakeholders Improvement of hardwoods management for heronries Increase of high natural value areas Sharing of best available technologies for rice agro-ecosystem management with regard to nature safeguard Sensibilization about Natura 2000 network Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» A.1.1 habitat 91F0 restoration_Preparatory's study A.1.2 habitat 9160 restoration_Preparatory's study A.1.3 Bosco della Partecipanza forestal requalification_Preparatory's study A.2.1 Artificial springs' restoration_Preparatory's study A.2.2 restoration of marshy habitat into SPA S.Genuario_Preparatory's study A.2.3 Stepping stones creation_Preparatory's study A.2.4 restoration of a wetland area into SPA Bosco Partecipanza_Preparatory's study A.3.1 forestal management practices_Preparatory's study A.3.2 Quercus ruber eradication_Preparatory's study A.4 National stakeholders inventory Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» B.1 land purchase B.2 B.3 Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» C.1.1 habitat 91F0 restoration C.1.2 habitat 9160 restoration C.1.3 Bosco della Partecipanza restoration C.1.4 habitat 91E0* and 9160 restoration C.2.1 Artificial springs' restoration C.2.2 restoration of marshy habitat into SPA S.Genuario C.2.3 Stepping stones creation C.2.4 restoration of a wetland area into SPA Bosco Partecipanza C.3.1 forestal management practices_ C.3.2 Quercus ruber eradication_ Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» D.1 Ecological Network office D.2 Layman's report D.3 Publications D.4 Noticeboards D.5 Website D.6 Open source apps D.7.1 local Workshops D.7.2 National workshop on rice growing D.7.3 National ECO-rice Newsletter D.7.4 International Workshop - RRN D.8 Dissemination activities D.9 Educational game Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary

Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary Project LIFE NAT/IT/000093 «ECORICE» E.1 Forestal monitoring E.2.1 nature restoration actions' monitoring E.2.2 socio-cultural monitoring E.3 Project Management E.4 E.5 After-LIFE management Plan IRFEN – International rice filed network _ Provincia di Vercelli coordinating beneficiary