Legambiente along the Alps
is playing the new Legambiente campaign - in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment - to do the annual check-up bow Alpine with a focus on biodiversity and the health of the Alps, turned the spotlight on land consumption, the reckless and Tourism pirate.
The awards handed over by the ninth expedition of the "Caravan of the Alps " were 9 9 green and black flags to denounce the most serious situations of degradation and concrete, but also good practice to report on the campaign Alp Legambiente. The Caravan begins its journey with a rich calendar trekking, walking and public debates will be held until October in the main alpine resorts.
The expedition, as well as deliver the flags in the hands of those concerned, collect records, reports of damage, and will be lit the spotlight on opportunities for sustainable tourism in the mountains.
black flags. Among the causes of the banners blacks, assigned by Legambiente the "enemies" of the Alps, is the first place the speculation that, in the name of tourism, open spaces and opportunities for the concreting of high altitude. It 's the case of Valle D'Aosta who wins the black flag due to regional laws (called "wicked") to expand by as much as 40%, hotels, bars and restaurants, including those arising in conservation areas, but also for transform the most mundane tourist accommodation in holiday homes. Episodes
always speculative excess "free cement" are those registered in Lombardy, where black flags go to the municipality of VALLEVE (Bg), which adopted a PGT with 300,000 cubic meters of building areas and Foppolo in mind that a huge investment in second homes. Two black flags are assigned in Piedmont: the municipality of Acceglio (Cn) for the hydraulic and environmental damage caused to the river and the historic township of Chiappera and Casalborgone (To) for giving the opportunity to organize activities with off-road vehicles on a site Community interest (Bosco del Vaj Bosc and Grand). Banners
blacks in Friuli Venezia Giulia, one went to Edipower the projected increase in hydroelectric Somplago, which devastated the natural lake Cavazzo, while the other was delivered to the region for the idea of \u200b\u200bdrawing up an arena for 5 thousand places for cross-country skiing on Mount Zoncolan, already widely used. Finally, the Veneto, the black flag goes to the town of Sant'Anna d'Alfaedo (VR). And unfortunately, this year, the list of black flags also appeared the name of a famous Italian sport, Giorgio Di Centa, climbing the Stelvio Glacier National Park aboard a tractor, an act of respect for the poor mountain.
" Alpine Biodiversity is threatened by the effects of climate change and the transformation of the territory - said Vittorio Cogliati Dezza, national president of Legambiente - but phenomena such as the return of large predators, the wolf, bear, lynx, indicate the Alps as a living and dynamic, which requires appropriate policies for land management. For this we are extremely concerned by the cuts announced on protected areas and we have to be developed spatial strategies more sustainable than those of the recent past .
The good practices. Legambiente but not limited to the complaint. The fact caravan crosses the Alps also looking for those who develop projects to safeguard and protect the largest mountain range in Europe. And I'm positive nine awards, awarded this year to projects that have fielded virtuous policies. In many of these cases, administrators and citizens have taken charge of the needs of their community and were able to interpret them in a creative way, managing to meet the desire of civil and social development with the conservation of precious natural environments, those which, if preserved, maintain the identity and cohesion of a community. The most important
green flag was handed over to the Maritime Alps Park Wildlife Center "Men and Wolves", entirely dedicated to the wolf. The project is of enormous importance, not only because it is the first in Italian, but mostly because it gives equal attention to the relationship that the predator has with man. Another green flag that stands for the effectiveness of the project went to the Co-operative Women's Mountain "by Ornica (Bg) in Lombardia. The reasoning is simple: "women" were able to develop an idea of \u200b\u200bOrnica involving hotel development and spread based on the exploitation of cultural resources and human resources, reacting dynamically to the depopulation of a mountain village.
be noted that the green awards were presented for work done on the topic of renewables and energy efficiency. A bear in this case, the flag of Legambiente were, in Valle D'Aosta, the municipality of Saint-Denis (Ao), in Lombardy, the municipality of Rovetta (BG) and in Liguria Mühlen Triora (Im), but also private initiatives, such as the eco-house 'to zero km Carnico Prato (UD).
Article by Monica Rubino, published in The repubblic to on-line (section Environment) of 31 July 2010
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