From Greereport of January 4, 2011 , and we publish the thoughts on the plight of Italian parks in Paul Pigliacelli .
In the first decade of 2000 the number of protected areas and areas in the world have increased substantially. The year 2011 began with more than 140,000 parks covering approximately 21 million square kilometers of land and sea, an area equal to two times that of Canada. 12.2% of the land area and 5.9% of the territorial waters are protected areas, while only 0.5% of the park is extra-territorial seas. But the most surprising is that in 220 countries around the world are protected areas and 45% of these surface exceeds 10% of the territory: the archipelagos of the Pacific to the polar regions, passing through all the corners of five continents, every institution that manages even small portions of territory has established protected areas.
What's more, 193 countries met in Nagoya in October last, during the COP 10 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, have identified their protected areas in the most effective way to conserve natural resources essential to the future of the planet, so they decided that by 2020 the protected area should reach 17% of the land area and 10% of the oceans . This means that the instrument "park" or a specialized body for land management, has been high and universality as well as other forms of public administration such as justice, health, education, and yet it seems that in Italy is constantly questioned. The story of provincialization the Stelvio National Park is emblematic, as in neighboring Switzerland, home of the most entrenched federalism, FOEN (Federal Office for the Environment) to strengthen land management and policy at the request of the cantons, is transforming several regional parks national parks (the first will be the Parc Adula cantons Graubünden and Ticino), a few miles in our side of the Alps, you go in the direction opposite.
In the hectic and confused situation in which we currently find our national and regional protected areas, it is stunning to hear Cherie Enawgaw, coordinator of the Authority, the National Environment Ethiopia's poor "in the past, mistakes, nature parks have been almost completely neglected by government programs, is needed to raise them for the future of our country. " If Italy, such as Ethiopia and the rest of the world, will have a future, perhaps you should take more account of the heritage and reliability of power and wealth, including financial, enclosed parks.
Paul Pigliacelli
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