Conservation and Research

Active since 2003 – ongoing In the context of this theme, which had already been activated by the Genoa Aquarium – Costa Edutainment SpA with various national and international initiatives, the Genoa Aquarium Onlus Foundation has decided to intervene in areas of excellence. In...

From 2022 – ongoing In 2022, after a High Level Discussion Summit, The Ocean Race decided to promote a process to arrive, by the end of the UN Decade for the Ocean (2030), at a Universal Declaration of Ocean Rights. The Earth Law Centre, the Municipality of Genoa and the Fondazione Acquario...

Active from 2022 – 2026 The project, coordinated by the Fondazione Acquario di Genova Onlus, is mainly based on an industrial PhD from the University of Genoa, conceived in the spirit of the general project "Genoa and its Sea". The project includes an experimental activity to...

Active from 2022 – ongoing The Monk Seal project, internationally called “Care4Seal – Revealing the distribution of the Mediterranean Monk Seal in the NW Mediterranean using eDNA approaches”, is coordinated by the Fondazione Acquario di Genova Onlus and aims to indirectly...

Active since 1995-ongoing The European pond turtle ( Emys orbicularis ) is the only turtle native to mainland Europe and is widespread from Portugal to the western shores of the Caspian Sea, with an uneven distribution in different regions. In Italy the distribution of this species is...

Coral Project - Indonesia Active from 2021 – ongoing The project in Indonesia was promoted by the Fondazione Acquario di Genova Onlus as part of the ECOCREST© certification of companies that have been farming pearl oysters (pearls and mother-of-pearl) since 2023. In particular,...

Since 1992 – ongoing Since its opening, the Genoa Aquarium has carried out numerous interventions for emergency operations on cetaceans and sea turtles, including ex situ maintenance operations and in situ interventions. Since the creation of the Genoa Aquarium Foundation Onlus, it has...

From 2000 to 2009 The Mali project, initially launched by the Genoa Aquarium, which was taken over by the Genoa Aquarium Foundation in 2003, had as its main partners the NGO Terra Nuova and ISCOS, also supported by the Ministry of the Environment of Mali, the Ministry of Tourism of Mali, the...

Active from 2006 to 2011 The Tabatinga project involved one of the most interesting areas of the Amazon, a Brazilian area of the state of Amazonas also close to the borders with Peru and Colombia, along the Yavary River (Alto Solimoes). The project, which also included two on-site missions,...

Active since 1992 – ongoing It is one of the largest projects that have characterized both the exhibition itinerary of the Genoa Aquarium and a series of activities, including several in situ expeditions, from the beginning. The project (which involved all the companies that have...

Active from 1999 to 2011. It was a large international project, managed under the aegis of NATO, first through the SACLANT Undersea Research Center, then NURC and then CMRE, which involved a long annual cruise in the North-West Mediterranean, especially focused on the Ligurian Sea, with the use...

Active from 2008 to 2012. The MADE (Mitigate ADverse Ecological impacts for open ocean fisheries) project was an international research and awareness-raising project promoted by the European Commission, which began in 2008 and ended in 2012. The project, which was extremely complex, involved a...

Coral Project - Maldives Active 2004-2010 The Coralli – Maldives project consists of a series of activities that have evolved and differentiated over time. At the beginning, the project was mainly developed as a support to the activities already underway by the Center for Tropical Marine...

Active from 2004 to 2009 The Antarctic Project was a research activity conducted by the Fondazione Acquario di Genova Onlus through an agreement with the Museo Nazionale Antartide, within the missions managed by the National Antarctic Research Program (PNRA), thanks to a specific Convention. The...

From 1998 – ongoing The Acquario di Genova Onlus Foundation has been conducting a continuous awareness campaign on the major problems of the Ocean for years, which concerns the following topics: realize that the Ocean is one, because all ocean waters are interconnected; need to increase...