News from the Italian Parks

(Vogogna, 26 Mar 14) UPDATE OF APRIL 16TH, 2014The impossibility to reach the Val Grande from Ossola, Vigezzo and Cannobina persists due to the snow level and the snowslides. The slopes in the shade of the southern area are covered with snow too. We advise you against carrying out the crossing Malesco-Scaredi-In La Pian...

(Assergi (AQ), 26 Mar 14) The monthly update during the staff meeting, which took place on the 20th of March, highlighted that the "Praterie" project's actions are positively proceeding in respect of both the schedule and the development perspective. The Action C3 - Concertation activities to optimize ...

(Portoferraio, 20 Mar 14) Within the Life Montecristo 2010 project entitled "Eradicazione di componenti floro faunistiche aliene invasive e tutela di habitat e specie nell'Arcipelago Toscano" (Eradication of invasive alien wildlife and plant species to safeguard the habitats and the species in the Tuscan Arch...

(26 Feb 14) Within the Life Praterie Project an intense and positive meeting of Mayors, Separated Goods Managers and Park Authority took place on the 25th of February in Assergi with the aim of urging the protected area managers to have a more active role in the ongoing Participatory Process for the shared cre...

(Guardiagrele, 14 Feb 14) To share the Knowledge on chamois ecology and conservation.Experts coming from the geographic area comprised between Spain and Caucasus will meet to share the knowledge and discuss conservation issues regarding the subspecies of the northern (Rupicapra rupicapra) and southern (Rupicapra pyrenaica) c...

(21 Gen 14) The four territorial meetings organized by the Gran Sasso and Laga National Park within the Life "Praterie" project, and especially regarding the participatory process for the shared development of a framework regulation for the grazing activity have been successful. The meetings took place last wee...

(Assergi (AQ), 09 Gen 14) The first issue of the biannual newsletter "Praterie" is available online, and it describes the first results of the Life Project's actions implemented by the Gran Sasso and Laga Mountains Park (the only beneficiary) to safeguard the pastures of the protected area through participatory activit...

(09 Gen 14) 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 &...

(Assergi (AQ), 08 Gen 14) Notice to create a ranking of farmers interested in receiving the free loan of the mobile structures to shelter the lambs in the park area during the summer transhumance. The action C2 of the grassland project is fully underway: it fosters a homogeneous grazing activity on pastures...

(Mantova, 21 Dic 13) For the 30th anniversary of its establishment neither the wonderful pictures of the animal and plant species, nor those of the landscapes we are used to see published in the calendar since 1988, but people will tell us the 12th month of 2014. The 12 protagonists were chosen by the park to summarize...