00:00I believe that what is needed is a real cultural revolution, because on the one hand, we have
00:11and I believe that in Lazio we have historically done a really good job of valuing protected
00:18areas, biodiversity, and therefore on this I believe that we must continue in that direction.
00:25What I see and what I have touched on with Manu instead, is sometimes some communities
00:31that live in a protected area, or in a park, almost as an enemy or an obstacle to growth.
00:37And I believe that this is the real issue, because if we are not able to talk to our communities
00:42and make them understand the importance of having all this biodiversity, an extraordinary environment,
00:4830,000 animal species, 3,500 plant species, it is a wealth.
00:53The issue is that it never becomes an element of injury or a breach against the community.
01:01I always cite a small example, I don't say where, but in a park a municipality had asked
01:08for a small extension for its own cemetery, for a municipality of a few thousand inhabitants,
01:14and it was said that it was the opposite from the park.
01:19All this generates misunderstandings.
01:22I do not enter into the merits of the decision, it is probably right, but that is the dialogue,
01:27the ability to know how to meet the needs of the community, because often these parks
01:32are in anthropized environments.
01:34Denying this is denying reality, so we must work more on the cultural issue,
01:42on the importance of protection and make sure to accompany the growth of our territories
01:49with the protection of biodiversity.
01:51I believe that this is the great challenge that we have in front of us.
01:55It is already an important investment, we are also growing as an attention,
01:59this as a region, also the latest financial issue that we are discussing in these days
02:04in the regional council goes in this direction.
02:07It is obvious that resources are the main issue, compared to all this,
02:14also for any compensations to communities or others,
02:17especially here in the region we are facing a balance
02:21historically penalized by a return plan of 25 billion, this is the issue.
02:29For management we have allocated more than 10 million euros,
02:35so we have increased the resources, this I speak for 2025,
02:40obviously they go to the triennium.
02:42We have for 2025 500 thousand euros more than the previous year,
02:47which in turn exceeded the allocations of the Zingaretti Region.
02:53We have put 2 million euros for investment in capital,
02:56we have put almost 200 thousand euros for the safeguarding of the most at risk species,
03:01so this is an important effort for a region like ours,
03:06which lives these important sacrifices.
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