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Almost 38 thousand signatures were collected in two months on the Change.org platform by petition to ask SNAM to divert the route of its methane pipeline which, if built on the planned route, will lead to the destruction of a refuge in which over 60 animals live and a forest of approximately 600 trees.Marta Garaffini and Federico Raspadori, the couple who own the refuge, launched the battle.As a sign of protest, the woman also began a hunger strike, which lasted two weeks.The spouses said they tried to open a discussion with the company, asking them to provide a small deviation of the route.Otherwise, "once the construction site is finished - they said - they will give us back our devastated fields", which they will no longer be able to use for their projects "because the lifetime easement of right of way on that land implies that SNAM, every time it has to make maintenance work, will return to dig and destroy everything”. The mega SNAM Linea Adriatica gas pipeline...

Over 260 thousand citizens of the European Union have signed a petition addressed to the European Commission, expressly asking the EU executive to give political priority to reducing the use of pesticides.The petition, the result of a growing movement in favor of environmental sustainability, was supported by numerous environmental organizations and associations active in the sector of environmental protection and agriculture, but also by many public health experts and biologists.There are three fundamental objectives at the center of the instance:reintroducing pesticide reduction into EU policy, reinstating ambitious targets for sustainable food production systems and protecting public health and the environment.The fight against the massive use of pesticides is therefore reinvigorated, an increasingly crucial aspect for the protection of the ecosystem and public health, put at risk by an intensive agricultural model considered, on a large scale, no longer sustainable in the long term...