The ribbon was cut by the head of the State Forestry Corps, Cesare Patrone, the president of the Bioparco foundation in Rome, Federico Coccìa, the minister of agricultural, food and forestry policies, Maurizio Martina, and the president of the environment commission of Roma Capitale, Athos De Luca. Also present at the inauguration was Renato Grimaldi, general director for the protection of nature and the sea of the Ministry of the Environment.The museum, the only one of its kind in Europe, aims to raise awareness among the general public on the crimes that often disfigure the heritage environmental. Suffice it to say that, in the first six months of 2013, the State Forestry Corps in its multiple sectors of intervention ascertained a total of 5.095 environmental crimes and 13.970 administrative offenses.The structure is divided into seven sections: fires, pollution and waste, poaching , illegal logging, CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), animal mistreatment and investigative techniques.
Visitors can thus get to know more closely the seriousness of phenomena such as the illegal trade in endangered fauna and flora through finds from the countless judicial police operations carried out by the CITES Service staff of the State Forestry Corps over the last twenty years. images, and settings.
These activities, which are often associated with organized crime, highlight the tools available to the State to combat similar forms of illegality.The Macri is spread over about 400 square meters in which numerous environmental contexts representing criminal phenomena have been recreated. and damage to the environment. The visitor is greeted by a short film in which the ethologist Danilo Mainardi intervenes on the themes of the Museum. The itinerary is accompanied by several panels in dual language that offer a clear explanation for each topic, enriched by data and curiosities.The initiative was supported by AgustaWestland which also provided an AW109AII helicopter on temporary display at the Bioparco in Rome, with the livery currently in use supplied to the Forestry Corps for environmental investigations. The National Reference Center for Forensic Veterinary Medicine of the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Lazio and Tuscany has instead set up the "crime scene", a case in the which illustrates the tasks of the forensic veterinarian, the biologist, the geneticist and the chemist, who are able to trace the perpetrator of the possible crime through specific laboratory investigations on the animal and on the finds found at the crime scene.
Monica Palermo
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