Natural Parks: Natural Protected Areas of Lazio
LAZIO, a region of over
17,200 km, with countryside that stretches from the sea and it's Tyrrhenian
islands to the Apennine summit, is rich in natural wonders that make it one of
the regions with the highest biodiversity in the Italian peninsula. There is a
variety of zones which is well represented in the
National System of Protected Natural
Areas of Lazio (Sistema
Regionale delle Aree naturali Protette del Lazio), where nearby-the vast
parks we find environments still intact contained within urban centers, where
the internationally important wet zones are matched with architectural
districts inserted in grand natural scenes.
An active system which has set up development processes based on the rational
use of the renewable resources, on the maintenance of the environmental
characteristics, on the development of scientific activity, recreational and
economically compatible with the conservation of the resources and the
protection of the original ecosystems. Along these lines activities have
developed within the diverse areas of the System which have included the
residents of the protected areas as protagonists. First of all have been the
young people who have understood what conservation of the ecosystems and of the
natural environmental characteristics can offer to those who have ideas,
imagination and above all the will to commit themselves, chances for new work,
based on the conscientious use of the natural and cultural resources.
Conservation of the ecosystem's species, missions to rescue the fauna,
environmental education activities, naturalistic and instructional tourism, the
cultivation of healthy and tasty agroalimentary products, the production of
commonly used objects, marrying present day techniques and materials from the
past, the recovery of old and characteristic structures in order to offer the
charm of traditional hospitality, the recovery of old paths in order to
rediscover forgotten areas: all this is possible, all this can be found in the
Natural Protected Areas of Lazio, a dynamic system in continuous evolution.
A system to discover through excursion paths, natural paths, thematic museums,
and in the reception structures present in the diverse areas.
The National System of Protected Natural Areas of Lazio (Sistema
Regionale delle Aree Naturali Protette del Lazio) is on the Web, at
www.parks.it/regione.lazio.
REGIONE LAZIO
Assessorato Risorse Ambientali
Via R. Raimondi Garibaldi, 7 - 00145 Roma - 06.51681
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