riserva del borsacchio

After a night blitz by the centre-right majority parties, the Abruzzo Regional Council gave the green light to an amendment which overturned the Borsacchio Reserve.The natural area, which extended over 1,100 hectares with its centuries-old woods, between Roseto degli Abruzzi and the hamlets of Cologna Spiaggia and Montepagano, has in fact been reduced by 98%, to less than 25 hectares.The territory of the Reserve is one of the last stretches of the Abruzzo coast that retains characteristics of environmental and landscape integrity.However, there is now a real risk that construction investors interested in building will show up and start deface even what remains of it.Following the approval of the amendment, protests were unleashed by opposition parties and environmentalist associations, who in particular targeted Marco Marsilio, governor of Abruzzo and former parliamentarian of the Brothers of Italy.A well-attended flash mob against the majority's coup was organized on the first day of...