Alessio Satta
Coordinator
Carlo Poddi
Forest Doctor
Giuseppe Mariano Delogu
Fire Prevention Expert
Francesca Etzi
Environmental engineer
Activities
Recovering the olive trees ecosystem of Sennariolo to protect biodiversity and respond to the health impacts of climate and extreme weather
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Mission
By recovering the olive trees ecosystem of Sennariolo, recently devastated by extreme wildfire, we protect biodiversity and respond to the health impacts of climate and extreme weather
Let’s talk about the effects of a mega fire boosted by climate change
On 24 July 2021, in the road between Bonarcado and Santu Lussurgiu, large and persistent wildfires crossed the territory of Montiferru and Planargia for 60 hours at very high temperatures, involving 11 municipalities affected to varying degrees, intensity and altitudes.
An intense blow has reached the planting of olive groves in Sennariolo, among the oldest ones at the regional level, destroying three quarter of the entire territor
Climate change, characterized by a substantial increase in temperatures and drought conditions, are playing a key role in determining fire regimes along with human activities. Future climate variability will further aggravate specific components of the risk of fires in many areas of Europe with consequent impacts on people, goods and ecosystems exposed in the most vulnerable areas. In recent years, in fact, there has been an increase in average temperatures and an extension of both periods of rain during winters and drought periods during summer months. This new condition reduces the humidity of the vegetation and facilitate the spread of flames. Even the greater abundance of winter rains, in reality, can favor summer fires, because it causes a greater growth of plants that become combustion material in the dry season.
Recovering the ecosystem of Sennariolo
Our proposal for the reforestation and restoration of the olive-trees of Sennariolo includes both direct interventions on the vegetation and on the soil in order to improve the overall resilience of the area to respond to potential climate-relate extreme events like fires, flooding and heatwaves.
The project intends to provide integrated responses in the field of recovery of olive trees plantations damaged by fires and at the same time to develop the basis for an integrated hydraulic-forest restoration action. The aim is also to mitigate the effects of flooding potentially affecting road network and the safety for residents living in the villages around, during extreme climate events.
The restoration action according to the techniques of naturalistic hydraulic-forestry engineering, crucial to limit soil erosion, will benefit the recovery of the forest itself, favoring the absorption of water in the soil and thus avoiding the drastic washout of the microbiome.
These measures will have to foresee interventions of wooded and vegetational reconstitution of the available biocenosis, exploiting the potential regeneration capacities typical of the Mediterranean vegetation, using appropriate silvicultural measures.
Targets
Recovering at least 50 hectares of olive plantations by reversing soil degradation, renewing existing biocenosis and replanting olive trees
Support our Campaign
Our Partners and donors:
Municipality of Sennariolo, Extreme-e, ENEL-X, Life Terra, Nico Rosberg Philanthropies, Copagri Oristano, PlanBee for Despar (“Bosco Diffuso in Sardegna”), Lemonot (Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri for “Trasformazione Possibile”)
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