I swear it's the latest photo editing! But this weekend we took the usual route to the west that took us almost the whole autumn and winter, to remove a couple of days città e godersi il mare semideserto. E ancora una volta abbiamo avuto la fortuna di un incontro. Breve perché i delfini (una decina, direi) erano parecchio impegnati a mangiare: ci hanno fatto un breve saluto, ma poi sono tornati a occuparsi del loro cibo. Noi dal canto nostro, avevamo un vento abbastanza forte quasi in poppa e poca voglia di strambare per tornare indietro, e abbiamo capito che loro non avevano molta voglia di essere disturbati. Però almeno una foto, di quei pochi minuti, sono riuscita a farla. Siamo di fronte a Capo Noli, piuttosto vicino a terra, quasi davanti allo spiaggione di Varigotti (spiaggione per noi liguri, s'intende!).
Di quest'incontro, che ha coronato un bel fine settimana di vela (con motore sempre off except for maneuvering in port) are particularly happy, because a few days ago I happened to read the Greenpeace report the Sanctuary of Cetaceans, which I was a bit 'sad. According to Greenpeace, in fact, the Ligurian Sea, which falls wholly within Cetacean Sanctuary, is a veritable open sewer, with high levels of E. coli that, together with various other causes, contributed to a sharp reduction in marine mammals in our sea. To reach this conclusion
Greenpeace has conducted a field survey, which was held for ten days in August. Immediately after the presentation of the report came accusations of scaremongering and unjustified simplifications , based on the little "scientific", a search lasting a few days, at the height of summer, in a stretch of sea that covers only a small portion of the Sanctuary and who does not take account of ' extreme mobility of cetaceans and marine ecosystem. All true, of course. In our small experience of visitors to the Ligurian Sea, we can say that the best matches with the dolphins we had them all off season (as long as you give a look at the dates of the photos on this blog). In the summer we meet them only at very large, often at night or just at sunrise.
It 's true, however, that the threats to marine mammals caused by the activities Human are significant: noise pollution, to chemical and bacteriological tests, the risk of collision (caused mainly by the high rate at which they speed ferries, cargo and summer, pleasure boats) to illegal fishing, to whale practices watching "extreme", which cause distress in animals that are literally under siege, instead of looking at a safe distance.
Exaggerations? Of course the sea is also a source of economic wealth, especially in Liguria. Suffice it to say that companies cruisers calling in Trieste or container traffic, which are the two cornerstones of our region held even in times of economic crisis. But I really can not reconcile, at least a little, 'Development and environmental protection?
issue on which scholars and politicians (at least those Ligurian ) agree with environmentalists about the very essence of the Sanctuary (consisting of about ten years ago in Italy, France and Monaco), which, unlike the marine protected areas, not have any kind of power, with which, for example, regulate the traffic and the speed of ships and penalize wrongdoing. This awareness (albeit extremely late!), Could be a starting point for greater protection of our sea but, since we are in Italy, will probably be just another bubble that will resolve a stalemate .
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