Conservation & Keeping Abruzzo Green

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Save the Aventino River

Abruzzo’s last unharnessed river, the Aventino faces being reduced to a trickle through new hydo-electric plans

Ticking Oil Bomb over Bomba

Bomba is still threatened by Forest Oil Corporation’s ticking oil time-bomb wielded by the silent and still undecided Italian National & Abruzzo Regional govts

Keeping Abruzzo Green

Our fight to keep the low quality sticky oil under Abruzzo’s seismic mountains, plains and coastline continues but we need a little bit of a helping hand!

An Abruzzo Bear & Wolf Paradise Lost?

Walking alongside bear & wolf trails won’t soon be an option in the Fioio Valley if proposed road building commences by the Lazio town of Camerata Nuova

The People’s Ethical Oil Win in Abruzzo Italy

Mediterranean Oil and Gas plc’s project to drill Ombrina Mare has been refused approval by Italian authorities, after protracted protests by residents

Oil – The Travesty of Abruzzo’s Budding Tourism

There has been a lot of demonstrating in Abruzzo recently against the central Italian government, now it's Abruzzo’s fight to stop oil drilling in the region

No to Oil in Abruzzo Says George Clooney Director Anton Corbijn

Anton Corbijin, Director of George Clooney's current film 'The American' that was shot in Abruzzo, has joined the environmental campaign 'No Oil Abruzzo'

The Fight Against Oil to Protect Abruzzo

December’s Copenhagen Environment Summit is fast approaching, as is the year 2010 and the battle to halt the oil giants’ proposed carve-up of Abruzzo

Abruzzo is one Europe’s greenest regions with 37 nature reserves and parks that cover 30% of this region of central Italy.

Recycling comes naturally to Abruzzo’s rural communities where the region’s primary income remains agriculture: bottles are kept to for next season’s harvest whether it is olive oil or passata or chillies and preserves.

This wild and untouched area of Italy has recently attracted the attention of the oil giants in their quest for oil incomes generate outside the members of OPEC. Both the Abruzzo coastline with its fish & bird reserves as well as its national parks and agricultural, fishing, tourism industries are all under threat.