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SARDINIA FOREST
AUTHORITY
The Forest
Authority: over 200 thousand hectares of
woods surface, for an invaluable
property made of 180 corporate bodies
between forests, forest yards, fauna
centres and forest nurseries. An
activity which employs nearly 7,000
people every year. These are the figures
of the Forest Authority 10 years after
its foundation (on June 9th 1999,
following the closure of the Sardinian
Regional Forest Domain Company), which
give it a central role in the work of
preservation and sustainable management
of Sardinia’s natural treasures. An
example is the management of forests, a
collective asset of outstanding
environmental, historical and economic
value. The Authority ensures
interventions of hydraulic and forestry
refurbishment, reforestation and
strengthening of the land. The numerous
forest nurseries annually produce about
4 million seedlings over 40 different
species: an essential aid for
reforestation activities aimed at
environmental restoration work. Sardinia
is the land of biodiversity, rich in
endemics of outstanding natural value.
To ensure sound management of the island
fauna the Authority carries out breeding,
care and shelter for wildlife. The
flagships are the projects for recovery
and reintegration into their habitat of
the deer, mouflon and fallow deer, as
well as two recovery centres for injured
animals of Monastir (Ca) and Bonassai
(SS)
A most important activity is the
prevention and fight of forest fires.
The Sardinia Forest Authority
participates with people, structures and
terrestrial vehicles thereby effectively
constituting, together with the Regional
Forest Agency, the backbone of the whole
apparatus. Each year over 4,000
employees are involved in shutdown and
reclamation operations.
Amongst the Authorities’ duties is the
promotion of the natural, historical and
cultural values of the forest regions.
For this reason many activities are
targeted to schools and initiatives to
raise awareness towards the environment.
This is the Forest Authority in a
nutshell: a solid though dynamic
structure, ready to face the new
challenges which years of poor
environmental management are now posing
to our society. Environmental education,
tourism valorisation, sustainable area
management, policies in line with the
Kyoto Protocol.
These are the answers of the Sardinia
Forest Authority.
www.SardegnaForeste.it
OLBIA - GOLFO
ARANCI– PORTO TORRES - PORT AUTHORITIES
Combining the sea
and rally, the harbour and motor sport
is something unusual, to say the least.
But in Olbia and the Gallura region,
like a challenge, this marriage has been
working for several years. The
cooperation between the Automobile Club
d’Italia, the Olbia - Golfo Aranci –
Porto Torres Port Authorities continues
this year for one of the most
fascinating sports events scheduled for
the spring season. In May, porto
Cocciani will open its doors to cars,
drivers and technicians of the kermesse
on wheels. “We will be there in spring
2009 for a new challenge – says Paolo
Piro, Port Authority President – whose
only goal is to bring our area under the
world’s spotlights and rapidly overcome
the economic crisis which unfortunately
affects us. For the third year we lay a
new challenge on the table, making room
inside porto Cocciani to host the
Service Area of the Rally”. An occasion
which Sardinia, a heaven for world
tourism, and Olbia, arrival ane
departure port for nearly five million
passengers, cannot miss for a start of
the summer season in great style.
“I confirm my belief that the Rally may
be a perfect starting pint to create new
tourism channels tour land, one of which
is actually the one of motor sport
enthusiasts. For what concerns us, we
maintain our firm commitment to increase
the connections between Sardinia and the
mainland and the search for new market
shares, such as the cruise industry
which, with 126 boats scheduled in 2009,
is already giving great satisfaction”.
www.porto.olbiagolfoaranci.it
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