This summer, RAMOGE once again engaged with divers from the three countries of the Agreement to raise awareness about the importance of citizen science. Their observations are a valuable resource for monitoring changes in species distribution.
As part of this initiative, RAMOGE visited the Palmes Beach club in Menton twice, with groups of Swiss and then Italian divers, as well as the Pierre Frolla club, l’Académie Monégasque de la Mer, in Monaco.
The program included: presentations of RAMOGE species sheets (emblematic and alien); reminders on the importance of underwater surveys, especially for exotic species that, favored by climate change, can become invasive and threaten ecosystems and human activities in the Mediterranean; dives to search for RAMOGE-monitored species, with observations recorded in a survey logbook.
These data will then be entered into CROMIS, FFESSM’s online citizen science platform, with which RAMOGE collaborates to collect information on species monitored in its area of action.
Discover RAMOGE’s citizen science initiative and the emblematic and alien species it monitors!
