The feast of the Forestry Corps and Environmental Supervision is celebrated today in Sardinia, an opportunity to take stock of the most important actions carried out daily by the many agents in the area, to protect what the President of the Region, Christian Solinas, defined as "a pearl still largely uncontaminated ”,“ a fragile treasure that needs constant attention, watchful eyes and inflexible rules, if we want, as we strongly want, that all this be preserved and handed down to those who will come after us ”.

The governor addressed "a dutiful recognition to the value and importance of the Forestry Corps and environmental surveillance, which has now assumed a decisive role in various strategic fields of action, at the service of the Sardinians and the environment ", retracing its steps from institution, with the regional law n. 26 of 5 November 1985, until today with the expansion of environmental, urban planning, landscape, state property and public health skills.

“It is a structure - he recalled - spread throughout the region, which operates through 7 territorial services, 82 forest stations, 10 naval bases, employing more than 1,400 units . The Corps also performed an important service during the darkest moments of the pandemic, fielding its men and means on a daily basis to protect public health and to suppress crimes ”.

Furthermore, the action to fight the plague of fires is fundamental: "After the annus horribilis, that 2021 devastated by the tragedies that not far from here devastated the Montiferru, in the summer of 2022 we witnessed a sharp decrease in the fires , also determined by the constant action of prevention and control of the campaigns that in the body had a fundamental actor as always, with the help of the firefighters, the men and women of Forestas, the volunteers, the barracelli ", said Solinas .

“Every plant that burns is a piece of Sardinia that goes away never to return, a piece of our nature that we lose, with all that it represents in material and immaterial terms. We still have in mind the apocalyptic images of the Montiferru fire: a tragedy whose echo can still be heard today ”.

Finally, the president spoke about jobs : “The Executive, after 18 years, has reopened a season of competitions and hiring. A first competition for 104 agents is underway, and will see the suitable ones engaged in the training course and then take up service in various stations. Another competition will follow for officers and others, again for agents. They will be new and fresh forces in the field, which will support the most experienced in the daily actions that distinguish our foresters, not only in the fight against fires but in all operations aimed at safeguarding our environmental wealth and in the fight against pollution and illegal crimes. , of contamination of nature. A mission to be carried out with that same love for nature that animated your patron San Giovanni Gualberto, a true lover of creation ”.

(Unioneonline / ss)

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