📣 In Pantelleria, a marine site has just received official recognition, offering scientists a secure area to validate the effectiveness of restoration efforts!

Since 2023, thanks to our patrons, we have been supporting the PANTHER project:

a rare alliance between researchers, fishers, activists and local stakeholders to test the restoration of a key Mediterranean site in Pantelleria, an island between Sicily and Tunisia.

🌿 Posidonia meadows torn out, seabeds weakened, biodiversity in decline…

When coastal habitats disappear, the entire ecological, food and economic balance is threatened.

✨ Today, a major milestone has been reached: Secca de Campobello now benefits from a protection status dedicated to scientific research and ecological restoration.

A true success for biodiversity, because restoring without protecting is doomed to failure. This secured area will allow scientists to measure and validate the effectiveness of the restoration efforts carried out by the PANTHER project.

A major achievement! Putting an official status like this in place is not easy: for the past two years, the project partners, with the support of key institutional actors (the Sicilian Region and the Coast Guard), have been working to find a balance between biodiversity protection and respect for local uses.

👏 A pioneering project in the Mediterranean, led by Agnese Riccardi and Carlo Cerrano (Polytechnic University of Marche), with MedReAct, the Pantelleria Fishers’ Association and Yam Sub.

At Pure Ocean, we deeply believe in these concrete, replicable models rooted in local territories.

And when it works… we celebrate 🎉🌊

BRAVO to the whole team!