The first Italian research center dedicated to biodiversity, the National Biodiversity Future Center: it is about one of five national centres established under the National recovery and resilience plan, coordinated by the National Research Council. It was presented in Rome, in the presidential estate of Castelporziano, on the occasion of World Biodiversity Day.
“It is a day with great symbolic value”, comments the president of the Cnr, Maria Chiara Carrozza: “with this new research center we also hand over the responsibility of carrying forward and developing this very important issue therefore, in a certain sense, we are starting for the future”. For Carrozza “safeguarding biodiversity is essential to save the planet, but also ourselves”.
“What happened in Emilia-Romagna makes us reflect on what we researchers can do to avoid these extreme events or to ensure that they are not so devastating: science can do something to reverse the trend. For this reason, the culture of biodiversity must spread starting from the schools and become part of our heritage: in fact, the new generations will have to animate this center – continues the president of the Cnr – we must find the courage to train them and invest in them ” .
The National Center for Biodiversity has already recruited 1,300 researchers and will have two offices in Palermo and Venice, said the president of the Cnetro Luigi Fiorentino, recalling how the protection of biodiversity has become part of our Constitution after a long journey. “The establishment of a Ministry of the Environment in 1986 – says Fiorentino – was a revolution and today we finally have the constitutionalisation of biodiversity. The investment in research, like the one made to give birth to this centre, is the basis for its protection not to remain just a slogan”.
Source: Ansa
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