An unchanged tragedy
Beyond the chatter, the usual promises of development and the big words about increasing employment and tourism, we know all too well what the establishment of a national park means for a territory and for the people who live and work there. And the tragedy, which has been repeated unchanged for decades, is that the affected inhabitants are forced to endure a measure decided from above and on which they were not able to intervene in advance. This time it is the turn of the people of Matese (a vast area between Molise and Campania, with the involvement of 4 provinces: Isernia, Campobasso, Caserta and Benevento) over whom hangs the sword of Damocles of Matese National Park, established in 2017 but still waiting for the Government to issue the decree establishing the protected area's management body. A measure that will be wasted time considering that in other protected areas of Lazio, an attempt is being made to merge three protected areas - profoundly different from each other and not even contiguous - sending home the management bodies, almost always the municipalities, appointed decades ago, to establish a single one with a brainless, expensive and absolutely unsuitable decision to guarantee surveillance, protection and timely interventions in the event, for example, of forest fires and other natural disasters.
Protected areas
For environmentalists, the National Park should protect and enhance the Matese Massif, a territory with a strong agricultural-forestry-pastoral vocation, but unfortunately we know well that it will prove to be the usual bureaucratic wagon capable of churning out only an infinite series of bans, transforming itself - like almost all protected areas, especially urban and suburban ones - into another convenient nursery in which wild boars and other already overpopulated and problematic species can reproduce in an uncontrolled and uncontrollable manner. All this will only make it increasingly difficult to contain the PSA while, at the same time, local populations will be harassed by an almost infinite series of absolute and total bans. Bans that, to the satisfaction of some animal rights activists and a handful of paid workers, will make not only difficult but even impossible the life of all those who, for centuries, have had their personal and family roots in those places but also their productive activity and therefore their very survival.
Environmental Impact Assessment
In fact, through the severe obligations that regulate the famous VIA (Environmental Impact Assessment), almost all companies, especially livestock, agricultural and forestry ones, will no longer be able to operate. Therefore, what is disturbing the sleep of breeders, farmers, lumberjacks, mushroom and truffle pickers and hunters is a deep and motivated concern and is resulting in a real rebellion, legitimate and very understandable, which we of Libera Caccia join with great conviction and with the utmost determination. To avoid all this devastating earthquake, four protest committees have been formed that have already organized meetings in Roccamandolfi (IS) and San Massimo (CB), planning others in all the municipalities falling within the park area with the aim of collecting signatures to urge the various mayors, but also regional politics, to ask for the repeal of the law establishing the park. The movement is not limited to protesting but has also formulated sensible hypotheses and suggestions that could, if nothing else, mitigate some hateful bans allowing the various stakeholders in the area to continue their agricultural, forestry and pastoral production activities. We will follow with the utmost attention the developments of this latest initiative taken in the name of an exasperated "parcomania" that, in most cases, has only produced great environmental and economic damage and, up to now, we confirm our solidarity and our commitment (source: ANLC).
You May Also Like ..
