LIFE SNAILS promotes fieldwork with the scientific advisory team

Oct. 7, 2022

Following the fieldwork promoted by the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change, under the LIFE SNAILS project, the project's technical and scientific advisory team in etymology, malacology, and nature conservation met on the island of Santa Maria for the establishment of a sampling network aimed at monitoring the arthropod and molluscs community in the project's intervention areas.

Eleven SLAM-type traps SLAM-type traps were installed to capture arthropods as indicators of habitat quality and were created 11 sampling stations where 26 molluscs species have already been registered, 11 of which are endemic to Santa Maria island, one from the Azores Archipelago and one from Macaronesia. The occurrence of one of the species targeted for conservation by the project, the Leptaxis minor, was recorded.

The analysis of the richness and distribution of species is a fundamental process for developing an action plan for intervention in the project's target areas.