[SEMCO] Azorean scientists to speak about Furnas Lake restoration at Buzzards Bay Coalition headquarters on Tuesday, April 2

[Alicia Pimental]

*Azorean scientists to speak about Furnas Lake restoration at Buzzards Bay
Coalition headquarters on Tuesday, April 2*



A group of visiting scientists from the Azores will speak about the
challenges of protecting and restoring Furnas Lake during a free public
presentation hosted by the Buzzards Bay Coalition. The presentation will
take place on Tuesday, April 2 at 6 p.m. at the Buzzards Bay Center, 114
Front Street in downtown New Bedford.



Located on the island of Sao Miguel, Furnas Lake has experienced similar
environmental problems to those faced in the Buzzards Bay region –
including invasive species and poor land use planning, leading to nutrient
pollution in the water. To revert this environmental damage and restore the
lake’s ecosystem, the Furnas Lake Watershed Plan was created in 2000. Since
2007, the area has made great strides in creating vegetated buffers around
the lake, which reduce pollution and protect the iconic landscape of Furnas
village.



The scientists – Miguel Caetano Ferreira, Raquel Caetano Ferreira and
Malgorzata Pietrzak, all of the Furnas Monitoring and Research Centre – are
visiting Massachusetts in part to establish relationships with similar
restoration groups such as the Buzzards Bay Coalition, and to share ideas,
methods and strategies regarding environmental restoration, outreach and
land conservation.



For more information about the presentation, contact Sara Quintal,
restoration ecologist with the Buzzards Bay Coalition, at (508) 999-6363
x225 or quintal at savebuzzardsbay.org.
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