The Umbra Forest increasingly promoted by Unesco, even the beech woods of Pavari and Sfilzi become a World Heritage Site

The area of ​​the Umbra Forest World Heritage Site expands to include the reserves of Pavari and Sfilzi.
The Ministry of Ecological Transition announces that the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee meeting in Fuzhou in China recognized “the peculiar ecological characteristics of additional Mediterranean ancient beech forests in the national parks of Aspromonte, Gargano and Pollino.
Thus also the reserves of Pavari and the state reserve "Sfilzi" of the Carabinieri - Biodiversity Department of Foresta Umbra enter among the sites protected by Unesco, joining the reserves of Falascone and Umbra which had already received the prestigious recognition in 2017, joining part of the serial site “Ancient primordial beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe”.
From the ministry they let it be known that it is a recognition "that seals the international initiative followed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, with the operational coordination of the Lazio, Abruzzo and Molise National Park, in cooperation with other European countries (Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland), for the extension of the natural transnational site of the Ancient beech woods of Europe - explains the dicastery - The extension, in fact, allowed the inclusion in the site Unesco serial of Mediterranean forest ecosystems dominated by beech located in the southernmost (Aspromonte), gold Mediterranean/subalpine (Pollino) and more low-altitude (Sfilzi) sectors of the network of 'old beech woods of Europe'”. Thanks to the protection action "guaranteed by the integral reserves of the national parks in close synergy with the forestry Carabinieri - explains the ministry - in these beech woods the natural life cycles of the trees are preserved unaltered which make the ancient forest more resistant to global changes : these forests represent, in fact, real natural laboratories where trees adapted to overcome hot and dry summers live, thus contributing to the mitigation of climate change".