Category Archives: Ecosystems

The beauty of flowering seasides

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The prime of the spring season shows wonderful flowerings of trees and meadows, soothing us with their colours and scents. These are more evident in those beaches which have not been mechanically cleaned and where the dune habitat has been preserved, keeping plant species that are now rare. Continue reading →

Romulea is back, spring is coming up

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Also this year we have been able to see a large Romulea rollii’s flowering on the dunes of the Torre del Cerrano Marine Protected Area. The presence of the sea saffron, plant symbol of the MPA, undoubtedly shows a vegetal biodiversity to protect together with the valuable dune habitats that are slowly disappearing from the Italian coasts. Continue reading →

For a fistful of clams

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In these days the Torre del Cerrano Marine Protected Area – a Site of Community Importance – is under the attack of clam-trawlers. From time to time these poachers of our sea come and destroy the seabed of the marine reserve in front of everybody’s eyes, indifferent to laws and pleas, just considering the sea and whatever inside their own exclusive property. The clam-trawling lobby is showing to not possess the necessary self-critical spirit to review the management of natural resources and, therefore, solve the crisis in their business. The authorities in charge and everybody’s civil awareness have the moral duty to defend the Torre del Cerrano MPA from these poachers. Continue reading →