The project 2 SOFT/1.2/47 ”Team up for healthy fish in aquaculture systems of the Prut river basin” – TeamUp HealthyFish – was presented, among others, in the section ”On-going projects – information from the program area” of the Newsletter no. 2/2022 of the Joint Operational Program Romania-Republic of Moldova 2014-2020.

The Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Life Sciences from Iași (IULS), in partnership with the Institute of Zoology, organized a knowledge transfer training within the project 2SOFT/1.2/47 Team up for healthy fish in aquaculture systems of the Prut river basin – TeamUp HealthyFish on 19 May 2022.

The Institute of Zoology joined on Saturday, 4 June 2022, the ecological community of the Republic of Moldova to mark the World Environment Day. The event was organized in Valea Morilor Park in Chisinau by the Association of Environmental Journalists, with the generous support of international funding organizations.

On 18 May 2022, researchers of the Institute of Zoology held a press conference dedicated to the completion of the project 2 SOFT/1.2/47 Team up for healthy fish in aquaculture systems of the Prut river basin - TeamUp HealthyFish (Joint Operational Program Romania-Republic of Moldova 2014-2020, funded by the European Union). EcoFM radio channel hosted the conference and broadcasted it on its Facebook page.

Between May 14-15, 2022, in the village of Văleni, Cahul district, the ninth edition of the National Ethno-Folk Festival “Sweet Acacia Flower” took place.

Current state of fish farming in the Republic of Moldova was one of the topics presented in the edition of the show "Codul Eco" from 9 May 2022, broadcast by the national television channel Moldova 1. Film shooting was done in the fish farm from Nimoreni village, Ialoveni district, having as interviewees Vitalie Bortă, fish farmer, Gheorghe Gheorghiu, executive director of the Association of Fish Farmers of the Republic of Moldova, and researchers of the Institute of Zoology – cor.mem. Elena Zubcov, dr. Nadejda Andreev and dr.hab. Dumitru Bulat.

On 8 of April 2022, within the cross-border project 2 SOFT/1.2/47 „Team up for healthy fish in aquaculture systems of the Prut river basin” – TeamUp HealthyFish (Joint Operational Program Romania-Republic of Moldova 2014-2020, funded by the European Union), a scientific workshop on the current state of fish farming in the basin of the Prut river and perspectives for its improvement was held. Workshop was organised by the Institute of Zoology jointly with the project partner – Iasi Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Life Sciences. 

We are happy to announce that Natalia Dibolscaia, trainee scientific researcher in the Laboratory of Terrestrial Vertebrates, will benefit from March 1, 2022 of the scholarship in the field "Global Monitoring of the Planet”, with the research topic “Monitoring of bat species in the urban environment of the Republic of Moldova”.

The most numerous animals on Earth are insects, exceeding one million species distributed in the most diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Currently, 20% of the known insect species are butterflies, and about 40% – beetles. Approximately 1000 species of macrolepidoptera and 2550 species of beetles are known in the Republic of Moldova, the number of which is increasing every year due to research conducted by entomologists. 

The employees of the Institute of Zoology donate financial means equivalent to the salary for 1 working day in support of refugees from Ukraine.