The Campania Region is committed to securing its territory.
Through a two-year plan (2022-2023) involving 20 mountain communities, 4 provinces (Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Salerno) and the Metropolitan City of Naples, maintenance and re-naturalisation of green infrastructure and ecosystem services are being carried out to reduce risks related to climate change (POR Campania FESR 2014-2020 – Thematic Objective 05 – Action 5.1.3) on a forest area of about 90 000 hectares (87.890 hectares).
The activities, which involve plumbing and forestry workers, are ongoing throughout the region and involve wooded areas, watercourses, roads and paths.
A generalized activity of cleaning, removal of brambles, shrubs and weeds is taking place, both in order to create firebreaks and to promote natural tree renewal. On the most fragile slopes, new trees were planted, while on the slopes subject to erosion, naturalistic engineering works were carried out in order to form surfaces resistant to the action of surface flowing waters.
Great attention has been paid to watercourses and rainwater drainage valleys.
Numerous works of hydraulic arrangement, cleaning and consolidation of the riverbeds, with the aim of expanding and improving the flow conditions and strengthening the stability of the banks. Thanks to these interventions, which also saw the laying of stone and wood gabions along the banks, streams and rivers have been secured, some of which, along their course, also lap the inhabited centers.
The extraordinary maintenance action to prevent landslides, floods and fires has also allowed the restoration and safety of roads and paths, with the indirect benefit of making entire areas of the territory that were precluded from this opportunity accessible again to nature tourism.
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