As part of the project supported byWITH THE SOUTH Foundation “Let's take care of, Let's live, ParticipiAMO il Sarno" the kids who enthusiastically participate in the volunteer camps and prevention of environmental risks undermine the area meet the zoologists of the Ass. ARDEA to understand the biodiversity monitoring that is taking place in the Park, engaging firsthand in an ornithological census.
The boys of the area is illustrated by the project coordinated byLegambiente Campania “Let's take care of, Let's live, We participate in the Sarno "which provides for a widespread monitoring of disturbing factors and depletion of the river basin such as plastic and other pollutants designed by CNR and Federico II and a constant observation of the biodiversity component conducted by the Ardea association focused mainly on the VIFAuna but careful to detect any other prestigious or threat element characterizes the living community. Zoologists show participants the results obtained in recent months such as photos of the different species of birds never reported in the territory ofRegional Park of the hydrographic basin of the Sarno river Like the Marangone minor (Microcarbo pygmeus) or rarely observed as the mignattaio (Plegadis falcinellus), The minor eagle (Hieraetus Pennatus) and the rare Tobacconate Moretta (Aythya nyroca). These species have been surveyed during the wintering or migration phase and their presence was ascertained for a few days. These data clearly indicate that the river is still flying over and frequented by a community of species of particular conservation interest which in the right conditions can colonize or re-colonize the territory in which the protected area insists.
The boys also try their own census from the ornithic community which in this period in the area of the sources has approved about 30 species including the torchol, Major red woodpecker, Green woodpecker, Upupa, Sparviere, Bully Wild Tortora, Water chicken, Rigogole yellow dancer. The real star of these meetings is: The Italian aquatic arvicola (Arvicola Italian). Thisrodent extremely elusive and shy aquatic, by Bibliography was known only for two locations: Partenio and Garigliano. To these two locations Ardea added a third locality of Lago Laceno in 2013 And now a fourth and precious observation along the banks of the Sarno river.
This new report is particularly important from a conservation point of view, Since it will help to better understand the distribution and ecology of this Italian endemic species, still little known, and gives to the park, often known exclusively for its polluted waters, A new species embellishes its fauna heritage.
The monitoring made by Ardea so far is giving interesting results not only on the avifauna front (The focus of censuses) but also compared to other taxa and above all in the involvement of the population through theCitizen ScienceAnd these environmental education meetings in which some of the boys underlined the desire to participate volunteer in the field working days to look through the eyes of the experts the territory in which they live through the point of view of the animals that inhabit it.
By the Ardea Association
