ESERO ITALIA: insegna, impara, vola in alto con lo Spazio

Alien invasion (second project on Avigliana Lakes)

Complaint of the WWF Italy: 62% of the fish. Expansions and recessions have been part of the earth’s history, but they have always been extremely slow. Thus, local habitats and species have always been able to prepare themselves gradually. The program “Mussel Watch” based on the use of the mussels to detect
over 150 inorganic and organic pollutants, from 1986 it supervises all the
coastal areas and the big lakes of North America.
However, now we create very quickly, unconsciously, the conditions for the breeding
of new species in our rivers and lakes has alien origin, as fishes of more than two meters and pipefish introduced in the Po. And there is no shortage of amphibians and crustaceans. Only 43% of the rivers and 20% of the lakes are in a “good ecological condition”. We have taken inspiration from the project named RIS-ORTA although it
was born in Orta’s Lake.
We’ve tried to do a simulation, but with the Avigliana’s Lake informations.
Let’s look at the data analysed.

We have seen that zebra mussels are truly an alien species but that they can still have a positive influence on cleaning the lake. And they can help us in this mission.

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