Local Officials Reject Baldo National Park Over Economic and Funding Concerns

“This park should not be created. We are not culturally opposed to environmental protection, but implementing such an intervention from above without funding— and as outlined in the bill approved by the Senate— would only paralyze the local economy and further depopulate our mountains.” The mountain policy councilor of the Province, Marco Truzzoli, expresses serious concern and frustration over how the Baldo National Park has been managed so far.

Together with the Veronese parliamentarian An Alberto Giorgetti, who recently raised the alarm by announcing the inclusion of an amendment on the Baldo in a draft law aimed at regional environmental agencies, and with the involvement of the Community Mountain Organizer Fabio Beltrame, he will meet the local population to explain on behalf of the Province the reasons for an unwavering rejection of the project— scheduled for Thursday at 8 pm in the civic hall of Caprino.

According to the AN parliamentary and local officials, who reiterated their position yesterday in a meeting at the Palazzi Scaligeri, the establishment of a national park with all the safeguards involved should have been first discussed locally, and in any case, to come into existence, it would have needed adequate funding.

The alternative risk, as Truzzoli states, “is to mummify the territory rather than protect it.”