ROSE GARDEN. Urgently approve the naturalistic plan of the Borsacchio Reserve with reference to the original extension of 2012, i.e. 1,100 hectares, to avoid being blocked for further years. This is what the Borsacchio Guides ask the president of the Abruzzo Region Marcus Marsilio in a long letter, also sent for information to the regional councilors and councilors, to the president of the Province of Teramo Camillo D’Angelo and to the mayor of Roseto Mario Nugnes. «Any modification of the borders», we read in the letter, «would start the whole process all over again, with a new scientific phase to find new perimeters, a new phase of elaboration, consultation, planning, passages in the city council, observations, evaluations and regional councils. Even if it is a priority issue, it will take many years to activate a Reserve on a new perimeter.”
After the reserve-cutting amendment adopted last December 29th in the regional council, which effectively reduced the perimeter from 1,100 hectares to 24, Marsilio sent a letter to the council of ministers to suspend the cutting of the reserve and the restoration of the transitional rules , effectively determining a new stalemate. «You have also announced prompt intervention in the next regional councils to resolve the issue», continues the letter addressed by the guides to the governor, «this is a first positive step towards a solution, but now it is essential to return to tackling the problem in a conscious manner and scientific. During the last few months, it has been made clear that the size of the Reserve is not the critical issue, but rather its management, implementation and planning. If not managed, designed and planned, even a single hectare is too much, while on the contrary, if it is well managed, planned and programmed, a thousand hectares is too little because it would become a resource for the environment and for the community. It is essential to work towards the sustainability and harmony of the reserve, which protects both the natural environment and the human activities that operate there. This has been missing, we all agree, in these twenty years.” Furthermore, in the letter the Borsacchio Guides also raise the alarm about the disappearance of the plover from the protected area. «With the opening of the cycle path, which has incredibly increased the human presence, the absence of a real Reserve, incorrect behavior and, in the last two years, real criminal episodes which have led individuals to intentionally destroy the nests, and in In recent months, all the breeding areas, signs, etc. have been destroyed”, concludes the letter, “after two years of such episodes, unfortunately, today for the first time in ten years there are no pairs or nests present in the Reserve. This is not only a defeat for us volunteers, who operate without tools and contributions, sacrificing free time, but for the community.”
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