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2012-01-31T18:49:00.000+01:00

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Sardinia's island splendours

31 January 2012 | By Anita Isalska, Lonely Planet

The Sardinian town of Alghero’s name derives from the Italian word for seaweed: “alga”. (Rocco Fasano/LPI)

Despite being part of the same country, Sardinia is fiercely distinct from big-booted Italy and its volcanic little brother Sicily. The wildly colourful island is located as close to Tunisia as it is to mainland Italy and nearly grazes the French island of Corsica. It is moored in the bluest waters of the Mediterranean and is home to superb diving spots, Roman ruins and some of the most memorable cuisine in southern Europe. With African-tinged flavours, a language all its own and a very peculiar take on cheese, Sardinia exudes an independent spirit.

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Well-heeled visitors will make a beeline for the glassy waters of Costa Smeralda, but this unique island has more to offer than its achingly beautiful seas. These three enchanting coastal towns form a worthy road trip from the island’s northwest to its south.
Alghero: Relics, shopping and the bluest of grottoes
Alghero has sun-baked streets, medieval archways and is a stone’s throw from fine sandy beaches, making it a magnet for Italian tourists. The oceanside town also offers clearer waters than its name suggests (inspired by the Italian word for seaweed, “alga”). Shop in the boutiques along Via Roma, be dazzled by displays of red coral jewellery and tread cobblestoned streets to admire the Gothic details of Cattedrale di Santa Maria. Reward your efforts with mouth-scalding fresh pizza or saffron-tinged seafood risotto in one of the Old Town’s bustling eateries.
For culture, the Museo Diocesano d’Arte Sacra near the cathedral is splendidly austere and harbours some ghoulish relics. The dainty skulls of the innocents slaughtered by Herod are neatly displayed in ornate cases, and stunning silverwork entombs a fragment of the “True Cross”.
But it is the natural sights nearby that really put Alghero on the map. The Grotta di Nettuno at Capo Caccia, a goblin kingdom of eerie rock formations, dripping stalactites and winding caves, is a blindingly blue excursion about 45 minutes away by car. Signs from Alghero direct you to a tiny car park and then down a craggy staircase to the caves. Those with no head for heights can take a boat ride from Alghero directly into the mouth of the grotto during the summer months. Guided tours are available.
Oristano: Battle-torn history and matchless cuisine
A couple of hours’ drive south of Alghero is the historic gem of Oristano, a coastal town that looks serene but has a bloody heritage of vicious Saracen attacks.
The town today is all understated loveliness, with azure waters and pastel-coloured waterfront houses. Wander to the remains of the old city at the Torre di Mariano II, a fortress in Piazza Roma, and stroll through quiet streets to a statue of the island’s heroine, Eleanora d’Arborea, on the piazza named after her. This formidable noblewoman composed a heavyweight body of laws that held fast for hundreds of years after her death in the early 15th Century.
Discovering the history behind this city works up a serious appetite, and you should not leave town without trying Oristano palate pleasers, like bottarga antipasti (cured fish roe) and gnocchi served with spinach, eggs and cream, all washed down with the famous local wine, Vernaccia di Oristano.
One Sardinian delicacy is such an acquired taste that you will be relieved to know it is hard to find outside the black market. Whiffy Sardinian sheep’s cheese casu marzu is so ripe it is crawling with maggots. The squirmy vermin are eaten along with the cheese, and it is hard to be sure whether it is the chewy addition of maggots or the eye-watering odour of the cheese that enhances its reputed aphrodisiac properties.
Cagliari: Roman ruins on the Gulf of Angels
From Oristano, Cagliari is an easy 90-minute drive south or about an hour by train. The slick but scenic city is nestled in the Golfo degli Angeli, a curved bay nestled in Sardinia’s southernmost edge.
Cagliari has a far more cosmopolitan feel than its northerly neighbours. Shady shopping arcades and trendy dining enclaves are the norm along Via Roma and Largo Carlo Felice, yet the Castello district remains unspoiled and Roman ruins (including an amphitheatre) are dotted throughout the city.
If shopping does not sap your strength, test your thigh muscles by ascending to Cagliari’s crowning glory, the Bastione Saint Remy, to get soaring views over the city. Head back down into the Castello district – a maze of medieval alleys – to admire the imposing facade of the 13th-century Cagliari cathedral.
After days of dusty sightseeing, your final stop is the sea. Recuperate in the waters of Poetto beach and dream deeply on its white dunes.

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Un antico giardino di Sardegna,Laconi

2011-11-03T21:01:00.000+01:00

Il Sorbo,albero da frutto e da giardino

2011-11-03T19:51:00.001+01:00

Il Sorbo,pianta longeva e bellissima, era una degli alberi che non poteva mancare nelle campagne coltivate della Gallura. A maturità assume una forma globosa e quando è adorno dei suoi grappoli di frutti colorati,nel tardo autunno, è davvero splendido.
E poi i suoi deliziosi frutticini hanno una sapore ed un profumo che ricordano la nostra infanzia.
Ho visto gli esemplari più belli nel Giardino di Villa Hambury, ma ne esistono ancora tanti.
Tende facilmente a propagarsi soprattutto ad opera degli uccelli.
Piantalelo nei vostri giardini, la sua ombra è provvidenziale in estate, ma lasciategli spazio a sufficienza, diventerà un grande albero a cui appendere l'altalena.

Guerra ecologica in palestina

2011-11-01T18:22:00.000+01:00

Resistance is fertile: Palestine's eco-war

After uprooting thousands of olive trees, Israel's latest plantation may pose a fire risk to its own citizens.

James Brownsell Last Modified: 01 Nov 2011 16:34

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Armed Israelis often help uproot Palestinian olive trees from ground claimed by illegal settlements [GALLO/GETTY]

They come from across the planet and meet in the shadow of Israel's 12m concrete wall. They strap olive saplings and water bottles to the back of a donkey, silent under its burden. Former police officers from Sweden, German punks, Australian conservationists, leftist activists from the US, South African priests, and a Celtic fringe of Welsh students join Israeli anarchists and Palestinian pacifists.
These are the guerilla gardeners of the occupied West Bank.
And it's a growing movement, with more than 120 international volunteers arriving in Bethlehem governorate alone to assist with this year's harvest.
"Guerilla gardening" has its roots among the Levellers and the Diggers of mid-17th Century England, but today has branches spanning the globe. From Toronto to Moscow, cabals of city-dwelling horticulturalists have sprung up in most population centres with any form of urban anarchist presence.
Seeking to "reclaim public space from its corporate governors", these green-fingered activists plant flowers, sometimes vegetables, in waste ground under overpasses, at the side of roads and in the centres of cities where concrete has long since replaced living, breathing flora and fauna.
But in the occupied Palestinian territories, it is a slightly different story.
Here, it isn't merely a symbolic attempt to reclaim pockets of neglected or misused terrain. Here, farmers and their band of globalist shovel-toting supporters are locked into what they see as a life-or-death struggle to resist an illegal land grab.
More than half a million olive trees have been uprooted or destroyed by Israeli civil and military forces in the past 10 years, according to the Palestinian ministry of agriculture, while the fates of hundreds of farming communities are tied to the humble plant - a tree renowned for its symbolism since before the time of Noah. The Palestinians' largely agricultural economy has traditionally been dependent on its harvest - olive oil, soap, lamp fuel - let alone the fruit itself - as well as the olive wood Nativity carvings sold to tourists in Bethlehem's old city - they have all been central to the Palestinian economy for hundreds of years.
But the olive tree has now found itself pitted in a battle for survival.
Farmers losing their grove
As the more-than 120 illegal Israeli settlements expand further into occupied Palestinian territory, it is Palestine's olive farmers who often find themselves facing violence.

"When I saw them cutting down the trees, I felt as if my heart was being uprooted from between my lungs."

Izzat Abu Latifa, olive farmer

"When I saw them cutting down the trees I felt as if my heart was being uprooted from between my lungs," said Izzat Abu Latifa, a farmer from Jab'a, near Bethlehem.

At 7 am on Tuesday, February 22, Abu Latifa got a phone call to tell him that Israeli troops were on his family's farmland - adjacent to route 367, a road between illegal Israeli settlements - and were taking chainsaws to the trees.
When he arrived at the field that his family had cultivated for the past 40 years, he said he found soldiers had cut down 150 trees and were poisoning the roots.
"I planted every year as many trees as I could manage and now they come to destroy what I have been working on," he said. "Olive trees are holy; what faith, what religion allows this to happen? How does any human being have the heart to kill trees like this?"
The commanding officer told Abu Latifa his trees had been planted on Israeli state land, despite the farmer producing the legal title deeds document.
But just a few months later, under the noses of the military - and as the watchtowers loom above - the guerilla gardeners (and their donkeys) get to work.
"We've planted 8,600 trees this season, a total of 69,300 since this programme began in 2001," said Baha Hilo, coordinator of the Olive Tree Campaign at the Joint Advocacy Initiative of the East Jerusalem YMCA and the YWCA of Palestine.
Ottoman rule
There is a law dating from the Ottoman empire in 1853, says Hilo, which states that any land left uncultivated for three years reverts to state ownership. "This law was introduced to boost tax revenues - because the Ottomans wanted food producers to produce," Hilo told Al Jazeera.
"But Israel applies the same law and blames the Ottomans in order to confiscate land within the occupied West Bank - except that the land becomes 'property' of the state of Israel, not the Ottoman empire.
"Our campaign is to help Palestinian farmers maintain ownership of their property - and once olive trees are planted, it is evidence that the land is being cultivated."
The joint YMCA-YWCA project is primarily an advocacy campaign, says Hilo. "We take the stories from the ground to the sponsors of the trees," he says.
"When a field is taken by Israel, it's no longer just the farmer who it is being taken from, but from all the international sponsors all over the world."
On Abu Latifa's land, Hilo's team of volunteers get to digging and planting.

"The Israelis had destroyed 100 trees. We came back with 300"

- Baha Hilo, Olive Tree campaign coordinator

"In another example, there is Ahmed Barguth from Al Walaja [another village on the outskirts of Bethlehem]. In June last year, the Israeli military put his family under house arrest, and then destroyed his farmland to build a road. We called up the sponsors of the trees, and a few months later, we went in with about 50 people. The Israelis had destroyed 100 trees. We came back with 300.

"We got all the olive trees and we all lined up in an assembly line and we each took a pickaxe and got to work. The army kept their distance that day and there was no confrontation. We had people from Norway, Japan, the UK, Finland, the Netherlands and Italy.
Among the group were "church members, retired doctors, youth workers, teachers, retired military men", aged between 18 and 84 years old. "Men and women, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, atheist, communist - you name it," said Hilo.
"We're not a militia, our weapons are our pickaxes and shovels, our hands and our olive trees."
The 'blessed' tree
The tree is deemed holy, blessed by Allah, according to the Quran, and can live to be hundreds of years old. In Jerusalem's Garden of Gethsemane, it is claimed the olive trees are the very same plants that Jesus and his followers prayed under.

"We're not a militia, our weapons are our pickaxes and shovels, our hands and our olive trees."

Baha Hilo, Olive Tree Campaign coordinator

"When you're driving on brand new roads, and you come across a 500-year-old olive tree on a brand new road junction - you have to ask yourself: 'Where did that tree come from? Has it grown there for hundreds of years, and this road just happen to come across it?' The answer is: 'No, of course not. This is a tree which has been taken from somewhere else - from someone else - and probably from someone whose family has been tending to these trees for generations,'" says Hilo.
When Al Jazeera contacted the Israeli government for comment, spokesperson Mark Regev denied knowledge of the use of the Ottoman law, and the Palestinian horticultural resistance campaign, saying: "I'm not aware of it."
In the 2009 paper Uprooting identities: The regulation of olive trees in the occupied West Bank published in the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Prof Irus Braverman uncovered some strong opinions on the subject:
"Like children, their trees look so naive, as if they can’t harm anyone. But like [their] children, several years later they turn into a ticking bomb," Chief Inspector Kishik, of Israel’s Civil Administration, told her.
The Israeli quest to "make the desert bloom" is older than the state of Israel itself. Since the 1920s, members of the pre-Israel Zionist movement attempted to massively boost food production, to prove to the British administrators of its "Palestine mandate" that the country could provide homes to more Jewish immigrants.
Indeed, since 1901, the Jewish National Fund has planted more than 240 million trees, mostly pine, across Israel - notably in the occupied Golan Heights.
Covering up history
But the planting of European pine trees was also intended, after 1948, to cover the remains of decimated Arab villages, says Alice Gray, professor of environmental studies at Al-Quds Bard Honors College.

"While Israel is widely credited... with having 'miraculously' greened the desert, less widely acknowledged is the fact that they destroyed the lower Jordan river system, the Dead Sea and the Coastal Aquifer while they were doing it."

- Professor Alice Gray

"The JNF's planting campaign ensured that farmers would be unable to return to their land, as pines alter the chemistry of the soil - preventing the development of agricultural crops," says Prof Gray.

This rezoning of the land to state-owned plantation "de-legitimises" other forms of land use, such as grazing by Bedouin herds or low-tech faming by fellahin [peasants], she told Al Jazeera.
"While Israel is widely credited with being at the cutting edge of thrifty water use techniques, such as drip irrigation and wastewater treatment and reuse, and with having 'miraculously' greened the desert, less widely acknowledged is the fact that they destroyed the lower Jordan river system, the Dead Sea and the Coastal Aquifer while they were doing it," said Gray.

Olive groves are often destroyed, but international activists are quick to help re-plant them [GALLO/GETTY]

The latest development in this struggle of eco-warfare is the planting of a 12 km strip of eucalyptus trees, at a cost estimated at 7 million shekels ($2m), along the edge of the Gaza Strip. The planting has already begun, according to the Israeli military.
"We are planting trees that will grow and provide cover," Lieutenant Cololonel Ilan Dayan said. "A person firing an anti-tank missile needs a line of sight to the target. If he doesn't have one, he has a serious problem."
Jewish National Fund chairman Efi Stenzler added: "We believe that the same JNF trees that have protected Golan Heights residents from the Syrians will now protect the residents of the south."
Major General Tal Russo, recently appointed commander of Israel's Southern Command, said the project reminded him of his upbringing on a kibbutz. "For me this is the completion of a cycle," he said. "I was born into the strategic security forestation in the Hula Valley, which was then used to defend from Syrian shelling. This was the first project placed on my desk as I came into this position. The project ... expresses the brave connection to the communities surrounding Gaza, and allows us to upgrade our mission of defending the southern communities with environmental benefits.
"Despite Hamas' recent efforts to challenge us, we stand strong. We are training, preparing and equipping ourselves to defend the residents of southern Israel. We will not accept the threat to [our] communities and will continue operating to preserve the peace in the south."
The risks of introducing non-native species
But planting the non-native eucalyptus, which agriculturalists note "has a reputation for developing extensive root structures", may pose other risks, such as lowering the water table in an already arid zone.
One other problem with planting eucalyptus trees close to communities they are intended to protect is the reported increased danger from fire. It is not necessarily that the trees themselves are explosive, per se. But, on a hot day, the vapour of the trees' oily sap forms a highly flammable cloud. In addition, the leaf and branch litter in eucalyptus forests is drier than other trees' litter due to the nature of the trees' canopy preventing sunlight aiding decomposition.
Following the Sydney bushfires of January 1994, Reuters reported: "The explosive nature of the eucalyptus and the abundance of fuel produces a very intense fire that 'crowns' - leaps from tree top to tree top ... The fierce blazes have been stoked by the highly volatile oils of the eucalyptus tree, which vaporise under intense radiative heat as the fire approaches and explode, with flames sometimes towering as high as 230 feet [70m]." [Michael Perry, "Sydney Bushfires Fuelled By Exploding Eucalyptus," Reuters World Service, January 10, 1994]
This is no problem for the trees, it turns out. Eucalyptus trees are noted for their ability to withstand fire. Indeed, a strong fire every five years or so is understood to aid the development of a eucalyptus forest.
The same, however, cannot be said for those who have their homes near to such forests. When fire tore through the Berkeley-Oakland Hills eucalyptus groves in 1991, 24 people were killed as 3,000 homes were destroyed.

"The explosive nature of the eucalyptus and the abundance of fuel produces a very intense fire."

Reuters report on the 1994 Sydney bushfires

Back in Palestine, the guerilla gardeners aren't the only grassroots green group poised to blossom in the occupied territories' parched valleys. In addition to her classroom teaching, Professor Alice Gray also runs Bustan Qaraaqa, a permaculture-oriented agriculture project which teaches Palestinian and international volunteers innovative water management and farming techniques.

"I hope that there is a general increase in the consciousness of the connection between politics and the environment - and a realisation that we are not passive actors in all of this, that everyone has the power to take control to some extent over their relationship with the environment and start trying to interact with it constructively. Of course, we think that permaculture provides a tool-set for doing this," says Prof Gray.
"It is also about not accepting the power-structures prescribed by the oppressors and trying to creatively circumvent them somehow - which works right up until the point that they bring the bulldozers and the big guns. This is why it is not really enough to 'go home and garden' - we also need the political and legal activism that will try to contain the most destructive elements of the occupation.

"All we are doing here is trying to ensure that there is a country left that is worth arguing over when all is said and done ... Whenever the hell that is."
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l'esproprio delle terre da parte delle multinazionali

2011-10-31T19:15:00.000+01:00

La fiebre de cultivos perturba África

La carrera internacional para explotar tierras fértiles en el continente amenaza el equilibrio en el reparto del agua y espolea protestas de comunidades campesinas

Andrea Rizzi Madrid30 OCT 2011 - 19:50 CET

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La pugna para el acceso al petróleo, al gas y a los minerales es una fuerza subterránea que ha contribuido significativamente a plasmar el mundo moderno. En el siglo XXI, se hace cada vez más evidente que, para comprender las relaciones internacionales, a esos factores habrá que añadir otro: el acceso a tierras fértiles.
La carrera por el control de superficies cultivables está en pleno desarrollo. La poderosa subida de los precios de los alimentos ocurrida en 2007-2008 impulsó el fenómeno. Muchos gobiernos de países dependientes de las importaciones de alimentos se convencieron de la necesidad de reducir su vulnerabilidad comprando o alquilando tierra en otros países. En 2011, tras un par de años de relativa calma, los precios han estado constantemente por encima del pico de 2008, según el índice elaborado por la Organización para los Alimentos y la Agricultura de la ONU (FAO, por sus siglas en inglés). La fiebre de los cultivos sigue ardiendo y, según vaticinan los expertos, no hay visos de que vaya a remitir a corto y medio plazo.
África es el principal escenario de la carrera. La falta de transparencia de muchos acuerdos y la ausencia de fiables registros públicos en varios países impide perfilar estadísticas exhaustivas a escala global acerca del fenómeno. Pero los datos disponibles indican que este es de amplísimas proporciones, con contratos que cubren extensiones de miles de kilómetros cuadrados. Tan solo en Etiopia, Mozambique, Sudán y Liberia, unos 43.000 kilómetros cuadrados fueron vendidos o arrendados a inversores extranjeros entre 2004 y 2009, según datos oficiales recopilados por el Banco Mundial. Se trata de una superficie equivalente al territorio de Suiza. Si se tiene en cuenta que son muchos los países que —en África, pero también en otros continentes— viven experiencias similares, la magnitud del asunto es evidente.

El incremento de la población mundial, la dieta más rica de millones de personas en países emergentes y la creciente cantidad de cultivos destinados a biocombustibles explican la subida del precio de los alimentos y, en gran parte, la consiguiente búsqueda de tierras. Más allá de su dimensión económico-social, este empuje tiene implicaciones geopolíticas.
Una de ellas es el control del agua. “Estas grandes inversiones se sitúan en zonas con un acceso estratégico al agua”, comenta en conversación telefónica Michael Taylor, analista del International Land Coalition, una ONG que sigue de cerca el fenómeno. “Por ejemplo, varios países de las cuencas del Nilo y del Níger son grandes receptores de este flujo de inversiones. Muchos de los contratos firmados en estos países no regulan claramente la cuestión del uso del agua. La utilización del caudal del Nilo ya es motivo de tensión entre Egipto y otras naciones de la cuenca. Cuando todos estos proyectos estén en pleno funcionamiento, son de esperar crecientes extracciones de agua. Hay un alto potencial para que se generen conflictos". Unos 200 millones de personas vivían en la cuenca del Nilo en 2005, y la ONU estima que serán 330 millones en 2030.

Crece en varios países la frustración de campesinos y pastores expropiados

Malí, uno de los países por los que pasa el río Níger, vendió o alquiló unos 2.400 kilómetros cuadrados de tierra a extranjeros tan solo en 2010, según datos recopilados por el Oakland Institute. Más de 100 millones de personas viven en la cuenca del Níger.
Países que sufren escasez de agua —como Arabia Saudí, Catar o los Emiratos Árabes Unidos— figuran entre los mayores protagonistas de la carrera por la tierra. “Pero también hay otras clases de inversores: países como China o India, que tienen agua para cultivar pero temen que en el futuro su sector agrícola sea incapaz de abastecer a sus grandes poblaciones; y empresas de países occidentales, que quieren tierra para cultivar biocombustibles, o simplemente vender más en el mercado internacional”, observa Taylor. No faltan tampoco inversores que simplemente buscan refugio de las turbulencias del mercado financiero.

La pugna por el agua está detrás de muchas de las compras de tierra

La pugna del agua no es la única evidente consecuencia geoestratégica en este fenómeno. También tiene un potencial desestabilizador en la política de Estados en los que la tierra es una cuestión vital, el medio de subsistencia directa de grandes porcentajes de la población.

Disturbios y tensiones
Madagascar es un caso premonitor de lo que puede ocurrir. En 2009, el rechazo a un proyecto para conceder a la empresa surcoreana Daewoo la explotación de una superficie de 13.000 kilómetros cuadrados —aproximadamente la mitad de Bélgica— fue el catalizador de un profundo malestar social que estalló con unos tremendos disturbios que dejaron decenas de muertos. El Gobierno que asumió el poder tras los desórdenes tumbó inmediatamente el proyecto. La frustración de campesinos o pastores expropiados o despojados del derecho de acceso a las tierras ha creado ya tensiones en varios otros países.
Los defensores de esta clase de proyectos alegan que las inversiones permiten crear nuevas infraestructuras, puestos de trabajo y una mejora de la productividad agrícola. Los detractores alertan de que, en la mayor parte de los casos, suponen el desalojo de comunidades enteras, que la creación de puestos de trabajo es muy inferior al número de personas que han perdido su medio de vida, que la exportación de la producción de esos terrenos daña países con mercado alimentarios muy precarios. Varias ONG han denunciado en los últimos años numerosos atropellos a los derechos de las comunidades locales.
Para reducir esos riesgos, el Comité sobre la Seguridad Alimentaria está impulsando un código voluntario de conducta internacional. El comité celebró una sesión en Roma del 17 al 22 de octubre, pero no logró terminar las negociaciones. Olivier de Schutter, relator especial de la ONU sobre el derecho a la Alimentación, alertó de que “está en marcha una carrera entre los inversores [que quieren obtener más terrenos] y la comunidad internacional, que quiere regular este proceso para evitar que tenga consecuencias pavorosas”.
“La atmósfera en la negociación es constructiva”, señala en conversación telefónica Duncan Pruett, consultor de Oxfam que asistió a la sesión del CSA. “El problema es que incluso si se llegara a un acuerdo en los próximos meses, ese código voluntario no tocaría en todo caso los factores que impulsan el fenómeno”.
Esos siguen ahí. “Nuestros análisis sugieren que nos espera una fase de volatilidad del mercado de alimentos”, explica George Rapsomanikis, economista de la FAO. “Además, varios casos de restricciones a las exportaciones —como las de India y Vietnam sobre el arroz en 2008, y la de Rusia sobre cereales en 2010/2011— parecen haber reforzado el deseo de autosuficiencia. Hemos pasado de una era en la que se impulsaba un mercado abierto, a otra en la que cada uno quiere protegerse”. Históricamente, actitudes semejantes han terminado a menudo causando graves tormentas en las relaciones internacionales.http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/10/30/actualidad/1319999483_738868.html

Il governo dei cementificatori

2011-09-10T22:49:00.000+02:00

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La lotta contro la natura,contro il paesaggio,l'unico reale valore della Sardegna continua senza sosta.
Nell'ottusità di una politica che non è volta al bene comune ma ai miopi interessi di pochi, si progetta la distruzione del nostro patrimonio naturale. Cosa rimane alla nostra Isola se la spogliamo di ciò che è il suo valore naturalistico e quindi economico. Non abbiamo monumenti nè opere d'arte, le nostre città sono state già snaturate in quell'ansia di modernismo e quindi di smantellamento dell'esistente, ci restano solo le rocce scolpite dal vento, la vegetazione mediterranea e se vogliamo i Nuraghi, opere che sono nella natura e che sono costruite senza aggiunta di materiale estraneo.
Nell'ansia di uno sviluppo che è solo perdita di un patrimonio non più riproducibile si imbocca una via senza uscita, destinata a renderci sempre più schiavi. E' nel destino di noi sardi? o sapremo ribellarci?

Viale di Eryththrina a Oristano

2011-09-10T21:57:00.002+02:00

L'Eritrina è considerata una pianta tropicale, adatta per climi caldi,ove le temperature invernali non scendano sotto gli zero gradi.
Qui ad Oristano forma un viale con chiome ampie e con una ricca fioritura.

capelvenere e asplenium naturalizzate nelle cascate della Sardegna

2011-09-10T21:39:00.001+02:00

l'estrema variabilità del clima di quest'isola consente lo sviluppo delle piante di caratteristiche assolutamente diverse. Dai tassi delle zone montagnose agli Hibiscus e i Ficus tropicali nei giardini di Cagliari e delle zone litoranee.

Laconi parco mediterraneo e delle acque

2011-09-10T21:28:00.001+02:00

La sardegna, terra arida ha le sue cascate, anticamente usate per azionare i mulini.

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l'esproprio delle terre da parte delle multinazionali

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capelvenere e asplenium naturalizzate nelle cascate della Sardegna

Laconi parco mediterraneo e delle acque