The “Operazione Foca monaca” project has been designed to give everybody the chance of being the protagonists of the many actions and events of the project itself. The various activities that make up the actions and events are aimed at getting people to know the Monk seal (Monachus monachus).In the […]
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Once again the sea, the mother and matrix of our existences, fascinates and involves us, taking us by the hand, to let us know its mysterious creatures that ask us only for respect. Our monthly appointment this time is aimed above all at children and teenagers; for them, we have […]
On Wednesday 22 September, as planned, we kicked off the Operation Nun Seal project. The event was announced by nine online and two print publications and the next day reported by ten online newspapers, two local televisions and the national ANSA. The project is very complex and takes place in […]
The sea, for all living beings on the planet, is the mother, the origin of life. For us human beings it also represents much more: the challenge with nature, the challenge with ourselves.For this month, I have chosen two classics that you may have already read, but that you will […]
Never was a scientific name more appropriate for an animal at risk of extinction! The origin of this singular name probably derives from the combination of the colour of the male’s fur that recalls the habit of Benedictine monks. The monk seal (Monachus monachus) remains the most mysterious and solitary […]
… So my thoughts drown in this immensity: and sinking is sweet for me in this sea ( Così tra questa immensità s’annega il pensier mio: e il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare). However, the sea of twenty-year-old Giacomo Leopardi was not made of water: it was the representation […]
On 22 September we will start the actions of the “Operation Nun Seal” project.We think that the reader may find it unusual to dedicate a project to an animal whose traces are no longer found on our coasts, given that even sightings have been interrupted since the early eighties.But the […]
In August, from the comet Swift-Tuttle, a meteor shower originates which has the maximum passage peak in the nights between 10 and 13.Every year, in August, the Earth, in its path around the Sun, intersects the swarm of debris left by this comet about 20 km large and which comes […]
Because the word is our most immediate means of communication and the children when they start to articulate the words begin the conquest of their autonomy.It is important to narrate because every story, fable, or fairy tale represents a path of growth. Playing between the fantastic and the real allows […]
Climate change makes the August sun increasingly hot, the countryside is now dry, but the flowers never stop opening and, indeed, we see them appear in conditions that seem incredible to us. This is the case of the Apulian Bellflower (Campanula versicolor). The intense blue color of the campanulate corollas […]