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Azienda Regionale Foreste Demaniali della Sicilia


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Azienda Regionale Foreste Demaniali della Sicilia

Azienda Regionale Foreste Demaniali della Sicilia (ARFD), the former Azienda Foreste Demaniali della Regione Siciliana (AFFDDRS), was established with a regional act in 1949 on the model of a similar body existing at a national level - and subsequently abolished - and inherited from it heritage, competence, and traditions. After the reform of the Regional Administration by the regional act n. 10 of the year 2000, this body represents today, together with Dipartimento Foreste, one of the Departments belonging to the Regional Forest Administration. In other words, all the territory of the Region lies within the competence of this body, which works through Provincial Offices and other offices depending on it.
Since January 2001, both the routine and extraordinary management of Azienda Regionale Foreste Demaniali della Sicilia is guaranteed by the Inspector-General; moreover, its surveillance and safeguard are entrusted to Assessorato Regionale dell’Agricoltura e delle Foreste (Regional Councilorship for Agriculture and Forests).
Its tasks, mainly inherited by the structure from which it derives, include the necessary activities to ensure the technical-administrative management of the state forests and of other areas which are entrusted to this body. They are the following:

  • enlarging and improving regional forest properties;
  • promoting actions and initiatives for the growth and improvement of the economy in mountain areas;
  • recovering and improving the vegetal covering in marginal territories;
  • promoting the social use of state woodlands for recreational purposes;
  • promoting mountain grazing activities and the gathering of berries;
  • organizing promotional activities, also through scientific, educational, or promotional publications;
  • managing protected areas and, in particular, the Nature Reserves that have been entrusted to it by the law and the Regional Administration;
  • promoting the presence of nurseries and of activities aimed at recovering public green areas;
  • planning adequate technical activities to prevent and struggle against fires in the woodlands of the managed areas.

The above-mentioned tasks are linked to the more general tasks regarding the safeguard of biodiversity in general, and of the germoplasm, above all the vegetal one, in particular. With ancient instruments first (i.e. acquisitions, reconstructions, etc.), and with new instruments now (i.e. management of protected areas, etc.) these aims have always been pursued by Azienda Regionale Foreste Demaniali della Sicilia during the over 55 years of its history. Today, like in the past, these tasks go hand in hand with the improvement of life conditions of the mountain communities and the safeguard of their production area, that is the mountain territory: adequate development strategies based on environmental sustainability are under study.
With the 32 Nature Reserves managed for the Regional Administration, this body also represents the main Park Authority of Regione Siciliana.
A modern service coming from the past.




Phone information on the Nature Reserves "Informariserve" 840 700 839, every day from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. (at the cost of only one unit if you call from a wireline phone - town telephone charge); if you call from a mobile phone, the cost will vary according to your provider.

www.boschidisicilia.it
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