News from the Italian Parks

(Assergi, June 27th, 2014) - The first draft of the guidelines, representing one of the qualifying actions of the Life "Praterie" Project, has been defined. On the occasion of the second general participatory workshop the draft was presented to the stakeholders of the Park in Fonte Cerreto of Assergi. Developed on the basis of the proposals and issues emerged during the territorial meetings which took place in the past months, the draft includes the criteria for the drawing up of the grazing regulation which the appointed institutions - Municipalities, Asbuc and Park Authority - will approve in the future, in the hope to realize a harmonious grazing system, whose surplus value will be the fact of being the result of a real sharing.

More than 80 participants - breeders, trade associations, local governments, university departments, trainees, facilitators and the Park's staff - livened up the workshop. According to the participatory methodology characterizing the project, at the beginning some points of the guidelines which had been already approved during the previous meetings were presented, marking the points that still needed a shared solution. Read more (italian text).