July 2016

The aquisition is the most effective action to obtain the concrete conservation and integrity of the priority habitat and species insisting on the SIC “Stagno di Pilo Casaraccio” (ITB 010002) the ZPS “Stagno di Pilo, Casaraccio and Saline di Stintino” (ITB 013012) where are present Garzetta Egretta garzetta, Cavaliere d’Italia Himantopus himantopus, Fraticello Sterna albifrons, Sterna comune Sterna hirundo.
Moreover, by acquiring the area will be guaranteed a constant protection and conservation, a major control of the sites, a concrete possibility of reduction of speculative actions and anthropic disturb.

The action is geared to the construction of 2 floating islets of about 100 square meters in the area of SIC Stagno di Pilo Casaraccio ITB 010002, ZPS stagno di Pilo, Casaraccio e Saline di Stintino ITB 013012.
The islets are placed around 600 meters from the lagoon, in the first saltern pools south of Torre delle Saline, where the last years observations mark a regular attendance of Sterna Comune and Fraticello.
The 2 islets have been equipped with artificial shapes and speakers with solar panel in order to attract the target species during the pre-reproductive migration period and to boost the colonization from the beginning of the species presence in loco.

The network has a specific purpose:
–        improving the dialogue and exchange among other Life on going or realized projects at territorial level, in order to maximize the effects of preservation and conservation of territorial natural                      resources;
–        activate a network capable of valorizing the environmental heritage even on tourism side by designing a pathway on Nature and Environment along the territory.
The foreseen effects are of extremely value and great importance in order to realise a circuit at regional level. The involvement of the beneficiary territories of Life projects, in fact, is addressed to those on going projects but even to those that have already experienced projects in the past.
The network action ended with the signature of an Agreement Protocol of collaboration among Comune di Stintino, Ente Parco Nazionale Isola dell’Asinara partner of the project Life Tartalife, Parco Regionale Molentargius Saline partner of the project Life MC-SALT, Consorzio di Gestione Area Marina Protetta Tavolara Punta Coda Cavallo for the project Life Puffinus.

The action aims at realizing a post-Life plan of conservation oriented to screening activities and periodic maintenance of the sites together with a program of management and monitoring.
E.5.1. Screening and maintenance. Periodic intervention of screening and maintenance of the involved sites and their perimeters committed to pursuing the protection of the results achieved with the project after its end. Critic situation will be communicate to the relevant authorities in order to guarantee, if necessary, a prompt intervention.
 
E.5.2. Realisation of a program of management and monitoring defined in the post-Life plan on conservation to pursue the project objectives on environmental protection.

The objective of the proposed action is that of informing and sensitizing the resident citizens, tourists, institutions and the other stakeholder on the relevance of the environmental resources and the importance of their conservation.
Events took place in institutional sites thanks to Stintino Municipality, with the active participation of all those involved in the project and of all those stakeholder that at different level will benefit from project activities and results.
Have been realized 2 conferences, the launch one through the City Council room while the final one took place at Museo della Tonnara. About 100 people attended the 2 conferences among public institutions representatives, association active in environment and environmental conservation, other regional Life representatives.

The objective of the proposed action is that of informing and sensitize the resident citizens, tourists, institutions and the other stakeholder on the relevance of the environmental resources and the importance of their conservation.
6 partecipative workshop have been realized where politicians, experts and technics, entrepreneurs, citizens interested to the project have shared the projects and its conservation and preservation strategies. During workshops have been discussed and analysed among others the the following issues: environment conservation and tourism, SIC as qualifying resources of the territory, SIC and sport hunting, the use of public resources to preserve the environment.
Workshops took place at the project Visit Centre specialized in dissemination and environmental education on habitats and species insisting on the SIC; this permitted to those who attended the activities to see, thanks to the monitoring and surveillance system, what was going on in the 2 islets.