"The importance of environmental resources linked to agricultural development. The synergy with other Mediterranean countries as an important value of connection and shared growth." Here are the words of the Mayor of Ostuni Gianfranco Coppola regarding the project LASPEH, Low Adriatic Species and Habitat. 

The Mayor was interviewed during the LASPEH Kick-off Meeting, held on 27 and 28 September 2018 at the former Municipal Slaughterhouse of Ostuni, Italy.

The project LASPEH is co-funded for around 500.000 EUR by the Interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro Programme and aims to promote and support the biodiversity safeguard reducing the contraction of biological diversities. In other words, LASPEH faces the loss of biodiversity by defining a common strategy to preserve the natural heritage and the landscape in the Low Adriatic basin.