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European wetland plant species at risk of becoming extinct: a successful rehabilitation on farmlands area | |||||||
Recovery actions with the aim to conserve a rare and endangered species of European marshland is successfully undergoing in Italy. The sedge likely original habitat, the marshlands of southern Italy, are in fact rapidly disappearing due to land change (i.e. housing and agriculture) and the species nowadays naturally occurs in all Europe only in two sites located south of Rome, in the Tor Caldara Regional protected Area and in the Ischia Island. In the region, before the “wetland drainage”, which started effectively from the 1700, the spread of several species of sedges and rushes was common. For these reasons a “rehabilitation project” was carried out, after a feasibility study, by Italian researchers with a joint effort of the Rome Botanic Garden, the National Protection and Research Institute and local conservation bodies. At present the re-establishment was successful however, warned the researchers, “in absence of post-release care and appropriate policy this conservation effort could be ineffective for the long-term survival of the species especially under increasing altered climatic events”. |
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