The Special Protection Zone “Stagni della Piana Fiorentina e Pratese” , listed among the Italian areas under RETE NATURA 2000 , centrepiece of EU nature & biodiversity policy and one of the last residual wet zones in Italy, important reproduction and migration route narrated already at the time of Boccaccio’s Decameron who mentions it in one of his tales, is about to be destroyed by the works for the enlargement of the Florence Airport Vespucci, a few kilometers away from the International Airport of Pisa, 30 minutes away from Florence by train.
In particular, the Lake of PERETOLA, one of the lakes remnants of an ancient large lake basin within a lowland wet area in the north west part of Florence, the Lake of PERETOLA (also village of birth of discoverer Amerigo Vespucci) , according to the official Appropriate Assessment in Master Plan Airport of Florence, page 26) SHALL BE FILLED UP AND CONCRETED OVER TO BUILD THE AIRPORT’S RUNWAY.
Cittadini per gli Alberi, a free association of florentine citizens concerned for the destiny of this precious site, important for the migration routes of wild bird species of Europe, delivered a SOS (http://cittadiniperglialberi.blogspot.it/2015/08/segnalazione-alla-commissione-europea-e.html)
to the European Commission as well the Ministry of Environment, following other much more authoritative protests (University of Florence- Polo di Sesto), calling for immediate intervention.
The Lake is place of migration , reproduction and in some cases, nesting, for bird species like:
Eurasian Curlew (Numenius Arquata)
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Eurasian Teal (Anas Crecca)
Shoveler (Anas clipeata)
Pintail (Anas Acuta)
Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)
Red-footed Falcon (Falcus verspertinus)
Little Stint (Chalidris temminckii)
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