BRINDISI – As part of the program that sees Azione Cattolica supporting Legambiente’s activities throughout Italy in 2024, the initiative “The Park: your home!” will take place on 4 May from 4pm to 7pm. in the Antonio Di Giulio park in Brindisi. The initiative aims to draw attention to the degradation affecting the park, to the acts of vandalism which are taking place even to the detriment of the nursery school present in the same park and to the need for citizens and, first and foremost, the inhabitants of the Commenda district to feel precisely this environmental asset and meeting place for families and nature lovers.
“The presence of volunteers and above all of young people will make it possible to monitor the many critical issues present and to propose the most suitable solutions to the municipal administration. Apparently the acts of vandalism are carried out by young people also gathered in groups that intimidate the increasingly scarce visitors to the park. It is certainly necessary to resort to systems of constant surveillance and repression of acts of vandalism and consequent crimes, but at the same time active citizenship is necessary in protecting and enjoying the park”. We read in the Legamebiente note.
“Legambiente, already in 2016 also presented through a conference the proposal for the establishment of a Brindisi Natura park body for the management of all urban parks and all protected areas present in the municipal territory of Brindisi, the proposal articulated on the basis of the experience built by the Roma Natura park authority and its then president Maurizio Gubbiotti was made official again on 4 October 2018, in a meeting with the mayor in the presence of the national president of Federparchi and guaranteed his support in the event of the establishment of the park authority “.
“Unfortunately, there was a lack of organic and efficient organization of the planning of the management of city parks with the effect of dispersing funding through extemporaneous interventions: the case of the Villanova farm intended to be the visitor center of the park, still on paper and not, is typical. protected, of the Punta della Contessa salt pans which, after spending hundreds of thousands of euros (it seems like a million), were once again devastated by vandals in the absence of planning and management of the protection and valorisation activities of the park”.
“Legambiente and Azione Cattolica of the Diocese of Brindisi have already obtained support for the realization of the initiative and invite associations, social and institutional representatives and ordinary citizens to participate on Saturday 4 May from 4pm, in a Park which for the City is even more the Brindisi Legambiente club registered in the name of Doctor Di Giulio has an intrinsic value and one linked to the personality to whom it is registered, as the then mayor Mimmo Mennitti underlined at the inauguration”.
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