In the framework of the cooperation initiated in 2008 between le Conservatoire dulittoral and the MEPA, a field trip has been organised on Malta and its islands onMay. During this mission, a marine expertise has been lead to evaluate theecological status of the maltese rocky coasts, using Carlit method, which has beendeveloped to calculate indices for environmental quality on the basis of a mappingof the abundance of plant species in the mediolittoral stage and the high horizonof the upper infralittoral stage including the populations of Cystoseira, the type ofthe substrate and the coastal geomorphology.
This mission has also be the occasion to train the MEPA to this method, applied forthe first time in the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin.