News from the Italian Parks

An extended reportage - with texts and images by Filippo Tronca who followed its entire development, and editing by Alessandro Di Giacomantonio - describes the workshop which launched the participatory process, held in Camarda (AQ) on the last 30th November.

The reportage, entitled "Le praterie del Gran Sasso e i faticosi sentieri della partecipazione" (meaning "Gran Sasso grasslands and the demanding paths of participation"), was broadcast on the last 6th of January from Abruzzo 24 ore.tv, which included it in its daily newsletter.

" The meeting of Camarda was intense and real" said the journalist who gave voice to all the actors involved in the process: the technicians and the representatives of the Park Authority, but especially the many farmers were involved in a lively and positive debate.
" The meeting - always mentioning the reportage - besides the agenda, also represented the opportunity to debate on the problems that the breeders and the farmers of the hinterland have to face (...) finally, thanks to the main role played by the breeders, and to the professional work of the technicians and facilitators, several suggestions were proposed and shared that a real participatory process should consider in order to improve the projects or to completely change them".
The Park Authority and the "Praterie" team, while congratulating on the service's high level and completeness also thank for the attention received, taking the opportunity to remind us of the next territorial meetings of the participatory process taking place on the 14th of January in Barisciano (San Colombo, Museo del Fiore), on the 15th of January in Arsita (Wolf Museum), on the 16th of January in Assergi (Park Authority Head Office) and on the 17th of January in Valle Castellana (Chestnut Museum).