Starting from October 26th, and until the beginning of May 2022, the experts of the MEDSEA Foundation will begin a participatory process to meet and discuss with everybody representing the civil, scientific and economic society of the municipalities involved in the new governance tool for wetlands and coastal areas.
Sustainable economy
Sustainable economy
The "Wetlands and Coastal Zones Contract" family is growing: with a resolution of the Municipal Council, the municipality of Nurachi has decided to become part of the integrated governance tool that is already composed by the municipalities of Arborea, Arbus, Cabras, Guspini, Oristano, Palmas Arborea, Riola Sardo, San Vero Milis, Santa Giusta and Terralba, from the Sardinia Region, the Province of Oristano and the Oristano Reclamation Consortium.
More than encouraging results come from the actions that the Maristanis project is carrying out to save water in the areas surrounding the six Ramsar sites in the Gulf of Oristano.
On the occasion of the UN World Environment Day, which this year coincides with the beginning of the decade for the restoration of ecosystems, the Contract of Oristano coastal wetlands was presented at a national level.
For some years the MEDSEA Cagliari Foundation has been involved, with the Maristanis project, in the sustainable development and protection of the wetlands of the Oristano area together with public and private bodies in the fishing, crafting, agriculture, culture and tourism sectors.
Sardinia reacts to the Pandemics betting on a sustainable development for their coastal wetlands 10 Municipalities, together with the Region of Sardinia, signed the “Contract of Oristano coastal wetlands” to protect 8000 hectares of wetlands and 267Km2 of sea
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.
"Until a few days ago the sun was beating hard, triggering the nebulizers. The cows begin to suffer at 19 degrees. I think we had 26. Can you imagine that in November? In half a century the climate has changed so much". Luigi Nuvoli proudly observes the 150 cows of his company.
"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.
"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”.
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.