Dec 07 2008
The places of the G8 2009 - La Maddalena: a environment rich natural and precious
The archipelago and its sixty islands and islets - the most extensive and most well known are the islands of Maddalena, Caprera, Santa Maria, Budelli, Razzoli, Spargi and Santo Stefano - are Natural Park since 1994. It is a park geomarino that covers a surface - between land and sea - 18,000 acres (5,134 hectares
land and 13,000 hectares of sea surface) and 180 kilometers of coastline.
The island is completely uninhabited, except the town of La Maddalena, of the village Stagnali of Caprera and a few homes in Santa Maria, and stored, even for this, an exceptional natural environment, both in land at sea. The park, for these reasons, is a source of pleasure for the eyes of visitor, but also a workshop attended by scientists and naturalists Italian and Europeans, for the study and analysis of environmental situations elsewhere lost to rare plant species typical of the Mediterranean, and sedentary birds that pass here have found an ideal environment to live and reproduce, a marine life rich in species now unavailable elsewhere. The vast expansion at sea the protected zone allows, in fact, ideal conditions for life to animals threatened with extinction in the Mediterranean.
For this reason, the logo chosen for the G8 reconstructs the archipelago starting the shapes of turtles “Caretta caretta”, which sometimes calling in the waters La Maddalena, as if to emphasize that the richness of life protected by the Park and the wealth of development opportunities for local people form a unit delicate and precious to be protected at all costs.
