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The Sicily Region donates 90 thousand euros to the municipalities for the care and enhancement of monumental trees

The Territory and Environment department has published a tender with which 90 thousand euros are allocated for the protection of specimens registered in the list of monumental trees. The interventions are 100 percent financeable up to a maximum amount of 10 thousand euros for each specimen, there is time until June 30th for applications.

The Sicily Region donates 90 thousand euros to the municipalities for the care and enhancement of monumental trees

New resources for Sicilian municipalities for the care, protection and enhancement of monumental trees. The Land and Environment Department has published the tender with which 90 thousand euros are allocated for the protection of specimens registered in the List of monumental trees of Sicily, falling within an urban area or otherwise accessible.

Each local authority can submit only one financing application, relative even with multiple trees monumental, by sending an email to the pec address by June 30th command.corpo.forestale@certmail.regione.sicilia.it.

The intervention proposals must be followed a as required by the guidelines of the Ministry of Agriculture, of food and forest sovereignty (circular 461 of 2020) e.gwill be acquired and evaluated by the Command of the Forestry Corps of the Sicilian Region.

Based on the criteria set out in the tender will be assigned a score to each individual project and drawn up a regional ranking. Priority will be given to the most urgent actions, proven by phytopathological and stability assessments present in the financing application. The interventions are 100 percent financeable up to a maximum amount of 10 thousand euros for each monumental tree and in any case until available resources are exhausted. From the moment the resources are allocated, the mayors will have time until 31 December 2024 to complete the interventions, under penalty of forfeiture of the financing.

In particular, to be allowed the projects must include actions to maintain the health conditions of the tree, physiological functionality and protection of public safety through, for example, pruning of the foliage, treatments for improving soil conditions, consolidation or anchoring actions, introduction of fences, fences, warning signs and, more generally, any other type of intervention aimed at enhancing the monumental tree or the safety of users. However, interventions involving the felling of protected trees are not permitted.

The regional list of monumental trees of Sicily includes 323 specimens, distributed across 71 municipalities, of which 76 are in urban areas. The province with the highest number of trees recorded is that of Palermo, with 133 monumental trees, followed by Catania with 54 and Agrigento with 37.

You can view the announcement on website of the Forestry Corps of the Sicilian Region.

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