Interventi di riqualificazione ambientale proposti per le aree umide di Torre Guaceto e delle Cesine

Among the models and the tools of management of the environmental resources proposed by Interreg IIIA Italia - Albania program, that foresees actions of exploitation of wetlands of naturalistic value, there are the Natural Reserves of Torre Guaceto and Le Cesine, in Apulia. Generally the aquatic environments of transition, as those considered, are characterized by a ticklish hydrogeologic equilibrium between fresh waters and salt waters; when this equilibrium slightly cracks, it can be due to the anthropical and natural factor, starts the process of salinization of fresh waters that brings the whole ecosystem to a progressive but inevitable deterioration. In the Natural Reserve of Torre Guaceto the gradual impoverishment of the ground water is united to another great danger constituted by the mouth, in the middle of the reserve, of Canale Reale, manifold of waste water. While in the Natural Reserve of Le Cesine, Canale Campolitano is like as a draining barrier allowing only in the phase of strong recharge a greater flow of the underground waters toward the wetland contributing to crack the equilibrium of fresh and salt waters. So it’s very important the guardianship and the safeguard of these areas.