Emergency and alarm : the Region decides on an air strike to deal with the forest disaster that is devastating the Island, from north to south. The declaration is the one reserved for the most devastating calamities : " recognition of the state of phytosanitary emergency" of the Sardinian forests. The images that flow are unprecedented, from Ogliastra to Sarrabus Gerrei, from Gallura to the latest published by our newspaper on the Oasi del cervo on Monte Arcosu. A phenomenon that for its vastness and intensity has no precedent in Sardinia , much less similar findings in the forestry panorama of the Mediterranean. A real perfect storm is hitting the woods of the Island, with the overlapping of calamities that risk generating an irreversible disaster for the immense forest heritage of Sardinia.

On the one hand, the phenomenon now widespread everywhere, as the effects of a tsunami, following the attack of pathogenic agents on Mediterranean scrub and forests, on the other, the infestation of lepidopteran defoliators of cork oak forests. A dramatic overlap that forced the Regional Council and the Environment Councilor Rosanna Laconi to adopt, within a month of each other, two resolutions from which a picture emerges of the situation on the brink of the abyss.

The latter leaves no room for urgency in the interventions: «To fight these parasites, in fact, it is necessary to use a microbiological preparation that must be sprayed by air when the larvae are in the most vulnerable phase of growth, in order to obtain maximum effectiveness from the treatment». For the forest disaster, intervention from the sky is now needed.

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