Green adventures, renewable energy, water cycle, National Park in Abruzzo and Molise

Green adventures

Liceo Scientifico Statale "Ettore Majorana" Isernia

Renewable sources of energy

The water cycle

THE NATIONAL PARK IN ABRUZZO AND MOLISE

One of the most renown Italian Parks , the first of our National Parks and one of the most appreciated abroad. In 1992 was inserted among the 25 most important parks in the world; moreover the W.W.F. considers that the Park of Abruzzo - Molise boasts the best management among the Italian Parks: not only for the environment preservation but also for the "ecological productivity", in fact in the park area there are 2000 small business.

The villages of Molise : Pizzone, Scapoli, Rocchetta al Volturno, Castel San Vincenzo, Filignano are included in the area of the Park. The fauna is very rich, there are deer, roes, wild cats, badgers, otters, lynxes, foxes, martens beech-martens and the important dark bear, Abruzzo's chamois and Appenninic wolves...; among the birds there are birds of prey: royal eagle, pilgrim hawk... The dark bear is the symbol of this park. The inhabitants of Pizzone used the bear's fur to make the "cioce", the typical footwear which was worn by the farmers while working in the fields . This bear eats every kind of vegetables and sometimes even animals like sheep but especially he likes honey. The Abruzzo’s chamois lives in open and silent places in the mountain and in the woods and also at low night. There is a limited number of Appenninic wolves. They eat big ruminant animals only if they are very hungry and they prefer wide spaces. About the flora, the forests and the woods dominate like beeches, maple-trees, oak-trees. Along the river Sangro in the valley there is the rare dark pine and in “Camosciara” , an untouched protected area , the very rare orchid called "Venere's little shoes" grows many varieties of flowers and the Alpine flora can be found. Lately in some villages of the Park the man has built 200 kilometres of running streets and ways, big houses, villas, tourist resort / attractions , residential centres, destroying the wonderful vegetation without taking into consideration of the accurate laws which protect the environment .

THE TRUFFLE IN MOLISE

In Molise the most diffused sorts of truffle are: the Tuber Aestivum vitt., the Tuber Magnatum vitt. and, in a smaller quantity the Tuber Melanosporum and the Tuber borchi vitt. or Tuber Albidum Pico. The Tuber Aestivum vitt. is present in the whole Molise area in great quantity. This truffle achieves voluminous dimensions and even ten cm in diameter, but we can find some smaller and bigger ones. Most of this truffle is destined to the exportation because it is cheap. With a round shape with irregular lobed it is sometimes very deformed because of the stony ground nature of the area in which it is grown up. Its bark has an opaque black colour and it is made up by many verrucae with a pyramidal shape. The meat is very compact and it has generally white if the truffle isn't ripe, and a white-coffee colour if the truffle is colour ripe. This truffle starts ripening in May , in Summer and in Autumn, but some specimen are available also in Winter and in Spring.