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Seven wild horses have been reintroduced to the steppe of Kazakhstan, where they had been missing for at least two centuries.The specimens are Przewalski's horses, also called Mongolian wild horses or takhi.Four of them come from the Berlin Zoo, while three others from the Prague Zoo.According to the director of the zoo of the latter city, the reintroduction in question represents a "event of historical importance".Once they arrive at their destination, the equines will be kept for a year in an area where they can get used to coexistence with each other and to the new climatic and environmental conditions, all under the strict supervision of a group of experts.Subsequently, they will be released into the wild, where they will make a positive contribution in ecological terms, both for the fauna and flora of the steppe. Przewalski horses (in Kazakh known as Kertagy or Kerkulan) I am the last species of genetically wild horse left in the world.The species completely stopped exis...

Last Saturday, thousands of people poured into the streets of Saccargia, in the countryside of Codrongianus (Sassari), for a major mobilization against the speculative assault on renewable sources in Sardinia.The event, entitled "E-Vento di Saccargia", saw the presence of information gazebos of the committees and speeches on stage by their spokesmen and a series of experts, as well as musical moments from artists who wanted to give their contribution to the cause.The event follows a few days after the meeting held by the members of the coordination with the new president of the Region Alessandra Todde, following the approval of the Council's bill which blocked the installation of renewable plants for 18 months.According to the committees, even following the discussion, which took place in a serene atmosphere of dialogue, numerous «dark spots», in particular on the minimum ceiling of 6.2 GW of renewables assigned to Sardinia in the agreement with the Ministry and o...

The first hearing of the so-called "Smog trial" took place in Turin on Tuesday 18 June first trial for eco-defendants ever carried out in Italy.Among the accused are the former mayors of the Piedmontese capital Chiara Appendino and Piero Fassino, as well as the former president of the Piedmont Region Sergio Chiamparino.According to the accusations, between 2015 and 2019, they did not put in place adequate measures to guarantee the protection of air quality of the city of Turin, which today appears to be among the Municipalities more at risk for this type of pollution.For this reason, public administrators are charged with the crime of negligent environmental pollution.According to the prosecutor's consultants, the concentrations above the legal limits of the pollutants recorded in the Turin area would have caused over a thousand premature deaths and several hospital admissions.A second line of investigation, referring to a subsequent period, also sees the current president of...

Following the checks carried out by Arpa Piemonte, which certified the failure to comply with the limits of PFAS emissions into the environment, the province of Alessandria sent a double warning to Syensqo – the former Solvay – imposing a halt to production for 30 days.The decision was taken after the company was in recent weeks at the center of particularly serious foam releases in the Bormida river and after investigations conducted for years which resulted in accusations of negligent environmental disaster and which led to discoveries that were anything but reassuring, such as the discovery of Pfas in the blood of the inhabitants of Spinetta Marengo.«It is time for a national law that prohibits the use and production of these dangerous substances to protect the environment and the health of citizens», commented Greenpeace Italia. THE Pfas they are a group that collects over 10,000 synthetic molecules not present in nature, used in various industrial processes...

With a provision published a few days before the elections, the Meloni government has allocated another 230 million euros of public funds (after 200 last year) for the benefit of new ski lifts and artificial snow systems for ski slopes.The decision not only contrasts with what has been reported for many years by committees and mountain communities which denounce how mass skiing is harmful to the territories from a social and environmental point of view, but also with what was recently put in black and white by the Bank of Italy in 2022 which, in a report, explained how artificial snow (and the practice of alpine skiing) are no longer economically sustainable due to the ever decreasing presence of snowfall due to overheating.Furthermore, artificial snow causes great water consumption and pollution of the territories due to the chemical substances used in the production of synthetic snow, and is therefore particularly impacting on an environmental level. THE'announcement of the Ministry...