The councilor of the PDL Luca Ricciuti asked to include in the agenda of the next session of the Regional Council his bill for the re-measurement of the Sirente Velino Regional Natural Park. With the cutting of over 4000 hectares of protected nature. The response of the environmentalists who attacked the proposed re-measurement of the Sirente Velino Park was immediate with a statement: "'The request to review the boundaries of the Park, protected at community level (Amendment to the Regional Law n.38 of 2009 - Amendment of the LR 07.03.2000, n.23 - Sirente Velino Regional Natural Park - Revision of the boundaries and delimitation of areas), can only arouse concern. We are perplexed that the President of the second commission has decided - making use of the regulation - to bring to the classroom a provision whose procedure in the commission was not yet concluded but above all that he insists on an approach of this kind. The Associations have clearly expressed in the past, through press releases and in a hearing at the II Commission of the Abruzzo Region, the clear opposition to a project that would see the cutting of over 4000 hectares with the exclusion of the Piana di Campo Felice, of the entire ridge from Punta dell'Azzocchio to Monte Rotondo, including the slopes falling into the Piani di Pezza, the grassy and alluvial area between Rocca di Cambio, Terranera and Rocca di Mezzo.
The bill brought forward by the President of the Second Commission Ricciuti for the re-measuring of the boundaries of the Regional Park, would lead to a banal as well as deleterious overbuilding of vast green areas also protected at European level (SIC and SPA), combined with the creation of a " Hunting District ”which provides for the management and conservation of natural habitats entrusted to local hunting associations. These fundamental and non-marginal areas of the Park, of great importance as core-area and / or ecological corridors in particular for the Marsican bear, rich in floristic species unique to the region, would thus be definitively left without adequate protection at the mercy of subdivisions. wild animals and "hunting management". Just what Italian and foreign tourists ask for!
We have already experienced a few months ago how the re-measurement of the Sirente-Velino Regional Natural Park, which took place at the end of 2011 with LR 42/2011, where the Regional Park has lost an area of about 90 hectares of surface of great ecological and conservation value in the Municipality of Aielli, caused a real slaughter by some hunters, which led, given the reaction of the citizens and local hunters, to ensure that the same ATC of Avezzano, as a precaution, deliberate the hunting silence, up to the end of the hunting season.
We believe that it is completely unacceptable that an area of such ecological and conservation value is excluded from a protected area so lightly and without any prior evaluation by experts, just to satisfy the private interests of a few. We underline that these areas are in any case included in Zone A (with absolute conservation) by the current Regional Landscape Plan. We also point out that the Sirente Velino Park Authority, once heard by the Commission, expressed its strong opposition as well as the Municipality of Rocca di Mezzo.
What will be the future of the Sirente Velino Regional Park, one of the largest areas rich in European biodiversity, where the Park Plan still does not see light, will also be seen in the coming days from what will happen in the Regional Council next Tuesday. Certainly it is really disheartening that the current regional majority, on truly anachronistic real estate and infrastructural pressures, has dedicated its energies to reducing the areas of a regional park such as Sirente Velino and a reserve (Borsacchio) instead of the perimeter of the Parco della Costa Teatina despite the mobilization of tens of thousands of people.
We therefore ask the Regional Councilors of each side to reject this re-measurement project which is completely incompatible with the conservation of nature and the landscape in Abruzzo, the Green Region of Europe. We launch this alarm in order to arouse the due attention of regional and national public opinion. "
July 27th, 2013
Source: Abruzzo24Ore
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