ECOGESTIONI s.c.r.l. - Servizi Ambientali - Palermo
PROPOSER:
Comune di Lipari
EXECUTIVE ORGANISMS:
Ecogestioni s.c.r.l.,
Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo dell'Università
di Palermo,
Comune di Lipari
OTHER SUPPORTING ORGANISMS:
Azienda Foreste Demaniali della Regione Siciliana (Manager of Regional Natural Reserves of Alicudi, Panarea and Stromboli),
Provincia Regionale di Messina (Manager of Regional Natural Reserve of Salina)
FINANCING: 75% European Commission, 23% Comune di Lipari, 2% Ecogestioni s.c.r.l.
STARTING DATE: September 1999
ENDING DATE: September 2004
OBJECTIVES:
Four of the plant species defined as "priority species of Community interest"
(Council Directive 92/43/EEC, Annex II) occur in the Aeolian Islands (Sicily):
Cytisus aeolicus Guss. (Fabaceae), a small tree endemic of the Aeolian Islands;
Bassia saxicola (Guss.) A.J. Scott (Chenopodiaceae), whose known
populations occur only in three small islands in the Thyrrhenian Sea;
Silene hicesiae Brullo & Signorello (Caryophyllaceae) described
on plants from Panarea and recently reported for Alicudi and one site
in Sicily; Ophrys lunulata Parl. (Orchidaceae), an endemic orchid
occurring in Sicily too. For all of them it is a matter of numerically
small populations of species with very narrow distribution areas and
high biological value, whose loss would cause (in one case at least)
the extinction of the species from the Earth.
The project aims at ensuring the survival of the four target species,
through "in situ" (gathering field data) and "ex situ" actions
(establishment of seed banks, propagation with the aid of bio-technologies,
cultivation), divulgation activities, especially involving the resident
human population, and “pilot” re-introductions to re-enforce the natural
populations, reducing the risks linked to direct or indirect human
activities and to volcanic ones. On the whole, they are complementary
actions external to the sites where the target populations occur; all of
these sites where proposed as "SCI" ("Sites of Community Interest") and
most of them are included in Protected Areas (Regional Natural Reserves).
Contacts:
Scientific coordinator: dr. Angelo Tróa, Ecogestioni
tel./fax +39 091 349957; e-mail: angelo.troia@libero.it
Technical coordinator: ing. G. Pirrera, Ecogestioni
tel./fax +39 091 349957; e-mail: gianluigi.pirrera@libero.it