The Board has resolved to approve the establishment of the permanent regional Observatory for biodiversity, rural landscape and sustainable development which will allow all initiatives concerning biodiversity to be carried out, ensuring uniformity in governance and the enhancement of the regional biodiversity heritage.
The Regional Council, on the proposal of the Councilor for the Defense of the Environment, Giorgio Oppi, resolved to approve the establishment of the permanent regional Observatory for biodiversity, rural landscape and sustainable development, identifying the coordination center for related activities to the Observatory within the Nature Protection Service of the Environmental Defense Department.
Oppi stressed that the establishment of the Observatory will allow the implementation of all initiatives concerning biodiversity, ensuring uniformity in governance and the enhancement of the significant biodiversity heritage existing in the Region and reconciling the ever-increasing need to contain expenditure.
The main tasks of the Observatory include the contribution to the establishment of the national network of regional and provincial Observatories and Offices for biodiversity, which will make it possible to provide the necessary coordination of all initiatives for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services. and communication, information and environmental education.
The collection, processing and transmission to the Ministry of the Environment of the data necessary for the preparation of the National Reports required by the Habitats and Birds Directives. The development and experimentation, with the support of the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), of a protocol for monitoring the conservation status of habitats and species to be standardized throughout the national territory, through the identification common criteria for the collection, management and processing of data.
Finally, the Observatory will implement the monitoring network whose data flow into the SIT Habitat in order to promote the establishment of a national monitoring network, based on a georeferenced information system that relates all the knowledge available at regional level on habitat and species.
15th November 2012
Sardinia Region
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