To celebrate the World Wetlands Day 2021, the MEDSEA Foundation (http://www.medseafoundation.org) organizes the competition "Terre d'Acqua" imagine the wetlands’ future dedicated to the secondary schools of the municipalities involved in the Maristanis project
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Straddling the board, Nikole observes the gray limbo where the waves are born, crushed in the perspective by the horizon. The Mistral sweeps the western coasts of Sardinia, the sky is a whim of blue and dark, low clouds. The series melts into a compact lump of crests that advance indistinctly and mount in moving walls on the peak. Nikole lets the first pass, too impetuous and steep, but turns the table and stretches out on it.
It is impossible to pass through. A line of barriers prevents the car to from reaching the last section of the 49, a straight road leading to the fishpond and the Sassu pump. The disaster of S’Ena Arrubia was announced along the road by the fields in the Arborea plain. Hundreds of birds have settled on the drowned crops, as if they had looked for a hotel waiting for the murky waters to stop overwhelming the pond.
For Sara Mirai, it was a layoff in the world of mining that opened the door that giving access to the cosmetics market: "I worked for a big multinational. When this was absorbed by another giant, many contracts were not renewed. The idea of venturing into the world of cosmetics was pure reaction".
Lights and shadows compete for the church of Santa Sofia, shrouded in the morning silence. The sun heats the sandstone of the high bell tower, enhances it against the blue sky. The facade remains in shadow, the Gothic rose window circled in red bricks stands out, a great eye on the symmetry of the doors. Nobody walks the streets of the center of San Vero Milis, one of the richest, when it comes to history, among the municipalities that touch the Maristanis wetlands.
“The truth / lies / in nuances”. “A man is always a victim of his own truths. When he has recognized them, he is unable to detach himself”. And again: "Sometimes a man stumbles upon the truth, but in most cases he will get up and continue on his way". Thus begins, with Bukowski, Camus and Churchill, among others, the the FAI (Italian Environmental Fund) Autumn Days in Arborea, dedicated "to the search for historical truth". In front of the town hall, two volunteers alternately read the aphorisms at the last turn of the visitors.
It is almost as if the scrub opens only at one’s passage, and is then ready to close itself again, like water. A swarm of small fleeing birds rises from the low and compact tangle. They spread out in the clear autumn sky to settle and hide together in another point in the sea of bushes. The Mistral, which is used to beat furiously here, today is only in the shrubs, forced towards the hinterland as if it were a hairdo in a face. Then the blanket thins out, the old house of Don Efisio Carta appears before the Spanish tower, and the bright sea stretched to the horizon.
With the message "Let's give a hand to the Sea..." Stefano Pia, "KM 0" photographer from Mogoro (Oristano area) won the #CoastDayInSardinia Photography/Video contest which took place during the Coast Day on Instagram and Twitter from 25 to 29 October 2020.
The tallest body of the Sassu drainage pump, with all its rationalist modernity, always looks like a submarine in the act of leaving the surface and sliding into the abyss.
Eleven municipalities in the Oristano area joined together for the protection and management of the wetlands and marine areas of the Gulf of Oristano and the Sinis Peninsula.
This morning, some of the mayors and representatives of the 11 municipalities involved in the Maristanis project including Oristano, Cabras, Arbus, San Vero Milis, Arbus, Santa Giusta, Terralba and Guspini met at the headquarters of the Regional Department of Environmental Defence, in the presence of Regional Councillor Gianni Lampis, to present the Coastal Wetlands Contract Action Plan.
Although busy with fishing, the gray heron retains the solemnity of the border sentinel. Graceful, elegant and austere, he observes the canoe passing its position on the rock and entering the lagoon.
At the end of the evening there will be over 80 kilos of waste collected in the port of Torregrande, Cabras: lots of cigarette butts, plastic of all kinds, polystyrene, glass, cans, a rusty tube, ropes and fishing nets. Everything seems perfectly in order to the distracted eye. Rarely is it when you go hunting.
- S'Anea Farmhouse, a garden where you feel at home.
- Freedom, passion and nature: a fishing afternoon in Marceddì
- Terre del Sinis, a room with a view on tradition
- Torremana, a family gathers around the nature and the legends of the Sinis peninsula
- Limolo, a harbour of peace in the heart of the Oristano Gulf
- The fishermen of Cabras: the pond is our home
- Adapting to climate crisis: a drone to reduce water consumption in agricolture
- Wetlands and agriculture, two weapons against climate change (and water conflicts)
- Distanced but united, the club Friends of Maristanis gears up for the after-quarantine phase.
- Responsibility and hope, fishing in Maristanis at the time of coronavirus