Professor Giuseppe Pulina, from Sassari, has died at the age of 70. He taught Ethics and Sustainability in Livestock Farming and was Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Sassari, where he also taught Research Ethics to doctoral students. He was a leading figure in studies and research in the field of animal husbandry. He edited over 400 publications. He was the general director of Agris, the agricultural research agency of the Sardinia Region, and sole director of Forestas , the Sardinian forestry agency. He was a member of the prestigious Accademia dei Georgofili.
He combined study, research, and civic engagement. He took part in the mobilization to enforce, with the strength of his expertise, the principle of insularity for Sardinia and in the other battle against the invasion of wind and solar farms.
Regarding the need to protect the land from projects with significant environmental and landscape impacts, he told Unione Sarda: "In Sardinia, 258 local agricultural landscapes have been identified, the very fine pieces that make up the mosaic. They cannot be disrupted by permanent interventions that lead to alteration. This network should have been studied in depth to identify any landscape and environmental compatibility with renewable energy plants. This simply hasn't been done because the regional landscape plan hasn't been extended to inland areas. In such a situation, cultural vandalism takes root. Fortunately, the regulations in place allow us to protect the vulnerable subject: the landscape."
He faced his illness with courage and determination, answering the phone until just a few days ago to always offer his contribution as a luminary in the fields of animal husbandry and scientific culture.
