Students working, together with the Park and the University, to save from extinction the Anchusa sardoa, a threatened species, whose entire world population resides on the Mugoni coast.

"A beautiful day dedicated to collaboration between various subjects in order to safeguard our naturalistic heritage", this is how President Emiliano Orrù commented on the morning dedicated to a species of herbaceous plant that is really at risk of disappearing. The total number of individuals existing in the world is found only in the Baia delle Ninfe within the Porto Conte Park but, in the last 15 years, it has registered a decline of more than 80%.

This is why the Porto Conte Park, together with researchers from the Universities of Sassari and Cagliari, is engaged in a project to recover seeds for the replication of young seedlings. Thanks to the active collaboration of the students of the Istituto comprensivo 3 of Alghero (secondary school of Santa Maria La Palma), about sixty "seedlings" have been planted along the Mugoni coast, at the height of the entrance to the "Stalla".

To assist the operations in environmental education activities, Ceas Porto Conte together with Prof. Emanuele Farris and colleagues from Cagliari and Sassari, teachers who have been studying and researching the evolution and presence of Anchusa sardoa in Sardinia for years.



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