Protection and enhancement of urban and peri-urban forests (Mission 2 – Component 4 - Investment 3.1)
Italy's Recovery and Resilience Plan provides the measure to protect green areas and increase their number with the objective of both preserving and enhancing biodiversity and increasing the quality of life of the inhabitants of those areas.
The actions shall concentrate on the 14 metropolitan cities of Italy, which are the most exposed to environmental problems like air pollution, loss of biodiversity or to the effects of climate change.
Forest reproductive material (seeds or plants) shall be planted for those areas for at least 4 500 000 trees and shrubs (in 4 500 hectares) and at least 3.5 million trees shall be transplanted in their final destination.
The interventions shall follow the adoption of an urban forestation plan with the objectives of preserving and enhancing biodiversity in line with the European Biodiversity Strategy, reducing air pollution in metropolitan areas, bringing the number air quality infringement procedures down.
The investment is financed by Italy’s Recovery and Resilience plan by EUR 210 million.
This project is part of this investment.
The Metropolitan City of Turin was the beneficiary of a grant* of € 1,250,000.00 for the improvement of biodiversity and the reconstitution of autochthonous woodland coenosis within the La Mandria Regional Park, through the felling and reclamation of invasive allochthonous species (mainly red oak) and the subsequent planting of autochthonous species.
The main objective is to trigger an evolutionary dynamic aimed at reconstituting the oak-harvest forests of the high plains in ecosystems now colonised by exotic species.
The intervention involves a total of 33.5 hectares in the municipalities of La Cassa and Druento, of which about 28 are within the Stellantis property (former FIAT test tracks) and the remaining are areas managed by the Park Authority.
After the uprooting of the red oak and the preparation of the soil, the project intervention envisages the planting of 37,000 forest plants belonging to species that are already spontaneously present within the nature park, and the planting areas created in high-density nuclei will be fenced off with closures to protect them from wild ungulates.
Maintenance work for the next 5 years - emergency irrigation, replacement of fallow trees and combating weed and invasive species - will have to guarantee the presence of at least 1,000 plants per hectare at the end of the project.
*by decree of the MiTe Natural Heritage and Sea Directorate General no. 198 of 19/08/2022
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- Reference
- M2C4
- Project locations
- Italy
- EU contribution
- €210 000 000