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Giulia Casamento

  • Biodiversity Journal, 15 (2): 225-233 - MONOGRAPH

    Giulia Casamento, Angelo Dimarca, Gianfranco Barraco & Elena Biondo
    Protected Natural Areas and Renaturation: the Nature Reserve “Grotta di Santa Ninfa” (Trapani, Sicily, Italy)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2024.15.2.225.233

    ABSTRACT
    The Nature Reserve “Grotta di Santa Ninfa” (Trapani, Sicily, Italy) protects an area of geological and naturalistic interest extended for about 140 ha and included in a larger Special Conservation Area. Since its establishment, the Managing Body has started the actions of environmental restoration of the plateau above the chalky slope where the entrance of the Grotto opens, altered before the establishment of the Reserve by widespread discharges of inert waste. This work describes the actions carried out and the results obtained.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 15 (2): 163-168 - MONOGRAPH

    Angelo Dimarca, Vincenzo Billeci, Giulia Casamento, Rosario Di Pietro, Giuseppe Maraventano, Elena Prazzi & Gerry Sorrentino
    Protected Natural Areas and sustainable use: the Spiaggia dei Conigli in the “Lampedusa Island” Nature Reserve (Agrigento, Sicily, Italy)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2024.15.2.163.168

    ABSTRACT
    The Spiaggia dei Conigli, falling within the “Isola di Lampedusa” Nature Reserve (Agrigento, Sicily, Italy) is of great naturalistic interest due to the presence of various habitats of community importance and as a regular oviposition site of sea turtle Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Reptilia Cheloniidae). Since its establishment, the Nature Reserve has activated numerous conservation and protection interventions and actions, renaturalization and re-orientation of seaside use, becoming a concrete example of integration between nature protection and territorial promotion. Over the last three years, the management body Legambiente Sicilia has strengthened the regulation of the site by initiating an action to limit attendance, in order to further reduce the impacts on habitats and species and to guarantee a more rewarding and aware of the naturalistic values of a protected natural area. The first results of this action are presented in this paper.