Environmental Projects Directorate

The Environmental Projects Directorate within Ambjent Malta is responsible for the design and implementation of the projects undertaken by the organisation. Project implementation is either outsourced through public procurement or is conducted through the collaboration agreements with NGOs or through direct implementation by the public officers employed by Ambjent Malta.

The main activities within this Directorate are the maintenance of Natura 2000 sites, habitat restoration initiatives and marine protection activities. Habitat restoration projects carried out in areas that are protected and/or of high conservation value are based on the notion of restoration ecology. Indigenous vegetation is planted according to the site-specific characteristics of the area, including phytosociology, i.e existing community of plants that grow in set conditions specific to the particular site. The scope of such projects is to encourage natural regeneration in the restored sites and potential regeneration in adjacent areas and biotopes.