Published: Friday, 17 May 2024 – Current affairs editorial team
VELLETRI (current events) – The Committee for the protection of the woods of the Alban Hills continues to ask for a stop to the cutting and the revocation of the concession for the company on trial for the damage caused to Monte Artemisio
ilmamilio.it – press note
“Last Saturday in Piazza Cairoli in Velletri many people stopped to see the large photographic exhibition on deforestation that we have created in recent months during walking and cycling excursions in the woods of the Castelli Romani Regional Park.
And they were all amazed to be able to see that in the fortieth year since the establishment of the Park Authority, in full party hangover, there are fewer and fewer woods and they are increasingly at risk due to the concessions to agroforestry companies for the cuts of the “coppice “.
During the hours of the garrison, the Committee for the protection of the woods of the Alban Hills had the opportunity to express concerns and proposals to truly safeguard the great heritage of biodiversity, history and climate change mitigation that we have right around the places where we live.
Many, of all ages, said they were dismayed by the scar that can only be admired by looking up from Velletri towards Monte Artemisio.
We reiterated that the hundreds of hectares destroyed will not grow back mechanically in a few years as assumed by those who have caused enormous damage to the entire community: such extensive forest cuts, which leave only between 3% and 6% of trees on the affected parcels from bulldozers and chainsaws, cause desertification of the land, also increasing the hydrogeological risk.
If the Park Authority exists it is to protect nature and the wildlife species that live there, not to continue granting permission, perhaps full of prescriptions not even implemented by the companies, which also take into account some fines as a small additional cost for a very large profit. higher.
If the municipalities of the Castelli Romani continue to grant the community’s assets to agroforestry companies for a few euros a year, they are themselves co-responsible for damages that are immediate and difficult to reverse in previous situations.
With each intervention from the amplification, many who were enjoying an afternoon in the historic center stopped to understand and get an idea of what was happening and this is precisely one of the most important steps.
In fact, the streets, squares and paths are not only places to “consume” a few carefree moments for a fee but are also used to socialize, to talk about collective issues, to discuss and think about what surrounds us and what interests us”.
He wrote it in a note Committee for the protection of the woods of the Alban Hills.
