MIlano, 18 sets. (askanews) – The last appointment of the third year of the Forestami Academy took place on the suggestive background of the North Milan park. The training program that in collaboration with the Prada group is dedicated to the deepening of the value of urban green. We talked to Maria Chiara Pastore – Scientific director of Forestami and Professor at the Polytechnic of Milan:
“The need to have an Academy stems from two aspects. The first concerns the desire to communicate the nature, its importance and that of urban forestry. The second aspect arises from the need to meet the people who live the city, listen to their needs. Thanks to the collaboration with the Prada group, we have been able to create three years of meetings, growing knowledge and above all we have listened to what the needs of people are to continue both the plan for the planning and the project of the cultural dissemination of the Forestami “.
Forestami Academy represents a concrete occasion to involve citizenship through meetings in which the comparison becomes a cultural and educational means. The day in Parco Nord Milano, in fact, also provided for a guided tour by the experts to identify and get to know the woods of different ages and see its evolution in a peri-urban context.
Riccardo Gini – Technical Director of Forestami and director of Parco Nord Milano intervened: director of
“It is important that citizenship is compared to the themes of the environment, primarily to know more the environment itself. I always insist on the fact that we know many brands of cars and we do not know the trees. Knowing the trees and recognize them means loving them more, considering them more, understanding their needs. And therefore, when you don’t think by categories, that is, in a generic way” the environment “or” green “, but you think for individuals. In general it is something that applies to everyone and therefore also for nature. To improve the quality of life and to contrast climate change “.
Reporting nature to the center of city life, this is the purpose of the Forestami Academy, which in its third appointment deepened the issues relating to the natural capital of cities and good urban sustainability practices.
Finally we talked to Giulia Capotorti – associated professor of applied and environmental botany of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” – to which we asked what biodiversity and ecosystems represent: ecosystems:
“The life insurance because they represent our natural capital, that is, we must invest in conservation but also in the management and recovery of species, ecosystems also within the city because they are the ones who can protect us from the environmental risks that are affecting us in this period”.
The goal of Forestami Academy is therefore confirmed to bring citizens, institutions and businesses closer to an increasingly green, healthy and sustainable vision of cities.
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