In the days immediately following the discovery of the two Marsican bear cubs drowned in the Scanno reservoir at Colle Rotondo, Salviamo l’Orso and Rewilding Apennines staff and volunteers carried out a series of inspections on various similar infrastructures that represent a constant danger to wildlife, domestic animals and human beings: a monitoring and supervision work of the territory that the associations have been carrying out for some years now and which is aimed at pushing authorities and public administrations to act urgently.
As we suspected, the situations detected have all confirmed the dangerousness of the reservoirs and the lack of adequate safety measures to prevent the recurrence of episodes such as the one that occurred in Scanno, or in the Fossette reservoir in Balsorano, where a total of five bears drowned in two different episodes in 2010 and 2018. Not to mention the dramatic incident in Bugnara (AQ) in 2004, during which a 7-year-old child drowned in a basin of the Reclamation Consortium.
What emerged from the work carried out was a technical report containing an analysis of the areas surveyed and a series of clear and detailed indications of the measures that need to be implemented, starting with fencing, the necessary technical specifications of which are illustrated.
The document was shared with all the competent Carabinieri Forestry Stations, as well as with the Abruzzo Region’s EIA Committee. The document was shared with all the competent Carabinieri Forestry Stations, as well as with the EIA Committee of the Abruzzo Region. On 10 June, it will be presented by the President of Salviamo L’Orso, Stefano Orlandini, during the PATOM Management Authority meeting scheduled at the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security.