More than nine crimes per day, one every 160 minutes, seven violations for every km of coast.An assault on the Campania coasts amounting to a total of 3.483 infringements detected in the last year, black jersey at national level. Shocking numbers in the dossier Mare Mostrum 2018 by Legambiente, a photograph of the state of the Campania sea, with our coasts hit by polluting discharges of the many places that still do not have efficient purification, dto illegal concrete that is not demolished. But also by poacherswho raid and by yachtsmen who speed around on boats, motorboats and jet skis without any respect for the navigation code. In 2018 the Campanian sea suffered a real frontal attack, with 3.483 violations, 34% more than the previous year. An increase which also has an impact on the data of people arrested or reported 4.141 (+45,6% compared to 2017) and on that of the seized assets 1.397 (+45,6%). In Campania - complaint Legambienteand - the most contested crimes are those waste cycle, understood above all as illegal discharges and poor purification above all else, and linked to the cement cycle, illegal building. The former are worth 45,6% of the total, the latter 40,7%. Next comes illegal fishing, with 8,5%, and recreational boating-related violations, with 5%.
Even with regard to the infringements related to the so-called "waste cycle”, in particular polluting discharges and poor purification, Campania fears no rivals: I am1.589 violations detected (+ 18% compared to last year) and with a 20% increase in the number of people reported or arrested as many as 1.703 while the number of 887 is seizures. Unregulated construction is a plague that our country is struggling to rid itself of and that makes a horrible display along the most beautiful coastlines: clientelist politics still tries to clean up illegal houses, little or nothing is demolished and the few mayors who do so are condemned to isolation and electoral defeat. Campania also holds the specific primacy of illegal concrete on the coasts, 20,4% of the crimes detected in Italya. Here a real record of infringements is recorded 1.419 with an alarming increase of 102% compared to last year with 1.930people reported and arrested and 320 seizures carried out. A surge compared to last year, also due to the inclusion, for the first time, of data provided by the Carabinieri for the protection of work on construction sites, regarding illegal building, gangmastering.
“This dossier - he comments Mariateresa Imparato, president Legambiente Campania– gives us a glimpse of illegality, unfortunately, still too significant, an indication of the fact that against the “enemies of the sea” it is necessary to raise the level, not only of the repression of crimes, but also of preventive surveillance. These are numbers that give no escape, that tell us that we must do more and better. That we must implement more incisive action, starting with greater collaboration between associations, local authorities, police forces. Without forgetting the strategic role of individual citizens who must reclaim the responsibility of reporting episodes of illegality, understood as a duty but also as a right to a healthier, cleaner and more beautiful environment. For this reason-concludes Mariateresa Imparato– Legambiente will also do its part this year, with the launch of Green Schooner, the historic travelling campaign that denounces the outrages and promotes positive experiences along the coasts of the peninsula and which will have the Volontari X Natura project "on board" for the first time (www.volontaripernatura.it), with which everyone can become environmental sentinels, reporting in detail landfills, suspicious conduct and other forms of illegality.”
The Legambiente dossier It also highlights other forms of illegality that they hit the Campanian sea: on the front of the poaching, a practice very widespread and which produces harmful effects, not only on the ecosystem and biodiversity, but also on the health of consumers and the economy of the country: the Campania settles in the middle of the rankings with 299 violations and 299 people reported and arrested and 53 seizures. Finally, there is another, not insignificant, enemy of the sea. There are incompetent yachtsmen and there are sea pirates, who travel on their own vessels with contempt for the rules and the lives of the people they meet along their route. Motorboats and scooters are the main defendants: they plough through the waves, entering off-limits areas of delicate ecosystems, such as those of marine protected areas, or they sail too close to the coast, seriously endangering the lives of unsuspecting swimmers. Lazio tops this ranking which with 439 infringements detected, holds 21,9% of the total. Campania is fifth with 176 violations. 209 people reported and arrested and 137 seizures.
The process gets underway with the presentation of the dossier Legambiente's summer of commitment with the journey of the Goletta Verde by Legambiente which will stop in Campania on August 2nd in Scario, August 4th in Acciaroli to conclude his journey the 5 and 6 August in Procida, and continues cwith sails spread, thethe project of volunteer camps on a sailing boat in the Sorrento Peninsula and Cilento with volunteers from all over Italy engaged throughout the summer in beach and seabed cleaning activities and scientific research. And again with the historic information and awareness campaign Recycle summer, to talk about separate waste collection in the region's tourist resorts.
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