Under observation, but not under control. On the contrary: there is talk of a " dramatic scenario", of an "alarming" spread and of a "need for urgent measures" in the resolution of the regional council adopted yesterday that allocates - or rather, redirects - the first funds to address the phenomenon that is destroying forests and Mediterranean scrub in numerous and extensive areas of Sardinia.
In the official document, therefore, the almost reassuring tones used at the end of the technical roundtable meeting convened on Tuesday morning are abandoned, when the regional department for the Environment and the heads of the regional companies had spoken of monitoring that had been underway for years and of a problem under observation.
The desolation
The tragedy is well known. Trees such as oaks and holm oaks (but not only) and other vegetation have gone, in recent weeks, from a healthy green color to yellow-brown. The panorama of death appears desolate starting from Sarrabus, in the province of Cagliari, to go up to Ogliastra and up to Gallura. With an increasingly large extension that also reaches large parts of Oristano. The cause? Drought, of course: in the eastern sectors there has been no rain for months and months. But the dryness could have also favored the spread of a pathogen, phytophthora cinnamomi, which attacks the roots and kills the plants, whose diffusion appears to be rampant. To ascertain whether these are phenomena that have added up, triggering the beginning of a disaster, the Region has so far allocated one million and 150 thousand euros. Money rushed to understand what is happening. As for the containment measures: we will see.
