"If we imagine the future, we see agriculture as one thing only with environment protection. We are sorry to be often perceived as cynical exploiters of natural resources. Actually we are the first to demand the preservation of the ecosystem that guarantees our wealth. We lay on sandy, voracious soils.
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"It all started in 1929 with my grandparents, an employee of the municipality of Venice and a housewife who arrived at the Marrubiu station, where they were entrusted him with a cart, two oxen, two cows, two pigs and a few chickens. They were essentially deportees, children of the great crisis of 1929. They settled here in this house. The farmer lived upstairs. Downstairs two families of settlers. They knew nothing about farming and sharecropping”.
The building that hosts the International Marine Center of Torregrande looks at the motionless water bends that find the pond of Cabras among the rushes, at the fish pond of Sa Mardini overlooking its merger at sea, at the great amygdala of the Gulf of Oristano. Geography explains the function. Not only research, monitoring and the preservation of the marine ecosystem, but constant teaching, communication, dialogue and collaboration with the social and economic fabric of the territory. "Transferring knowledge and giving practical application to research has always been one of the primary aims of the foundation, since its origins, thirty years ago" explains in her office Stefania Pinna, researcher and communications manager of the institute.
An agreement to make the territories that surround the Gulf of Oristano a model for a collective management of wetlands. As a climax of the Coast Day 2019, in the placid scenario of the Garden Museum of S. Vero Milis, the mayors of the municipalities involved in the Maristanis project, Terralba, Guspini, Arbus, Santa Giusta, Oristano, Arborea, Palmas Arborea, Cabras, Riola Sardo and San Vero Milis, signed the declaration of intent preliminary
Just below the noise of the machines the mussel shells beat and rub between them, as in a perennial undertow. The workers, protected during the long hours of noise from earplugs that look like stethoscopes, are bent over their segment of production. The first pour the mussels into the brushing machine.
"Thirty years ago the pond was like a forest. The pine forest as a frame, and all the possible plants here, in the middle. Especially cattail. It was very high, we had created passages to move from one place to another of the fishpond. And the fauna then. Not only the fish, sea and pond were very rich.
The barefooted have already tucked up all the sagum’s edges. Pressing on the sidewalks of via Tharros they created the narrow passage that Efisio Canu crosses on the run, as if born and pushed by the immaculate crowd.
Coast Day celebrates its 11th anniversary and raises the challenge for a sustainable use of coastal resources. Created in 2008 to promote the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) campaign, coordinated by the United Nations PAP/RAC agency and promoted by the European Union's SMAP programme and the World Bank's METAP project, the event aims to raise awareness among the people of the Mediterranean countries of the value of the coasts, their conservation and protection for sustainable development.
“Un uccello, uno scarabeo o una farfalla meritano la stessa fervida attenzione di un quadro di Tiziano o del Tintoretto, ma noi abbiamo dimenticato come guardare”. Quella del celebre antropologo Claude Lévi-Strauss è solo una fra le tante riflessioni dedicate nel corso dei millenni al rapporto fra esseri umani e natura.
"I like rowing, even if it is difficult to keep in balance sometimes. And I like the pond, seeing the birds and the fish, and the plants also", says Marta Casula, 9 year-old, leaving for a moment the small model of fassone she is building.
The Santa Maria pitches slowly over the small water ripples raised by the western wind, traces a route where the Gulf of Oristano bends into the Sinis Peninsula, a huge amygdala carved in the coastline.
Fighting the desease on a boat: Sail 4 Parkinson crosses the Gulf of Oristano
The small Maya focuses on the fork, unnoticed soon passes to pinch a cluster of spaghetti between the forefinger and thumb, soiling her little muzzle. "We read about the festival on the internet. The atmosphere is magnificent, and the bottarga delicious. It really is the caviar of the Mediterranean" says his father Andrey, one of the many visitors who fill Piazza Sturzo in Cabras on the last Saturday of July.
- Sant'Anna in Riola Sardo, a feast of lights in the heart of wetlands
- The Mistral and the lavender: in Riola Sardo the magic of Elvio
- An ancient boat for a "traditional" future, the regatta of Fassonis 2019.
- The Geolana banner to clean the harbour. Maristanis achieves one of its projects in Marceddì
- An inch from water, the marvels of Santa Giusta and Pauli Maiore
- One million euros for the compendium of the terralbese
- Nurachi, a crossroad of flavours and cultures in Maristanis
- Oceans Day 2019: Maristanis celebrates with the Othoca Institute of Oristano
- Let's clean the coasts, but watch out for the Kentish plover!
- The Way of the 100 towers meets Maristanis