The Secretary General of the Italian Wilderness Association, Franco Zunino, has written a letter to Prime Minister Mateo Renzi in defense of nature, urging the application of a spending review to Italian parks. "Dear Prime Minister, we are writing to appeal to you to defend nature. Apply a spending review to our parks! Prevent the squandering of public funds by establishing additional protected areas, whether desired by Italian environmentalists or requested by Europe . " Prevent the hundreds of SCIs, SPAs, and SCIs in Italy (the European nation with the largest number of such sites, because we Italians always lack seriousness even in the most serious matters!) from becoming "protected areas" under Law 394 and therefore state-funded entities. Reduce the size of existing parks by requiring the various national and regional bodies to plan the disposal of unnecessary lands for nature conservation purposes, that REAL nature that often represents only 50%, and sometimes even less, of so-called protected areas. We ask this because funding for national and regional parks is often granted not based on the value they are intended to protect, but on the size of their territories: therefore, the larger the parks, the more public money they require! Centralize and eliminate the authorities.
Obligations to transform many Parks and Reserves into streamlined and simple Wilderness Areas and / or Environmental Protection Zones on the basis of the powers of local autonomy, areas and areas that, if they need defense, do not need public funding for their management , nor of administrative apparatuses to be filled with "armchairs" and related salaries and various prebends.
Imitate Obama: obliges the autonomous bodies of the Parks to spend money only for strictly indispensable and permanent staff, and for the acquisition and / or rental of woods and mountains and the management of fauna and flora for conservation purposes only, and prevent any other expense that does not have this managerial purpose (and you have no idea how many useless expenses the Parks make: one for all, the various magazines and publications: all the same and all not essential except for those who manage them and those who public!).
It will save Italy and save the nature of our country more than it can by financing crazy projects for studies and "enhancement" of the environment, which ALWAYS turn out to be a damage to Nature. Protected nature at no cost, this is what Italy and its environment need, not public caravans! Discover the hot water of the American Wilderness Areas, which this year are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the law that provides for them, strictly defending them at ZERO COST for the community.
Italy is full of Parks and Reserves whose defense can be achieved without public management and administration apparatuses; do not listen to those who tell you that without public money and without public employees, protected areas cannot exist. We could make you a long list of useless protected areas, defensible protected areas, often even better, without management systems or with apparatuses reduced to a flicker. Finally, eliminate or reduce even the constraints that are not strictly indispensable, and you will save the Parks, their Nature, Italy and the State! "
Frank Zunino
Secretary General of the Italian Wilderness Association
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(March 24, 2014)
