Come la scintilla che precede lo schianto
Documentarist and wildlife photography
Lanzarote – Fuerteventura
Apart from the native bats and the mammals which accompanied humans to the island (including the dromedary, which was used for agriculture and is now a tourist attraction), there are few vertebrate species on Lanzarote. These include birds (such as falcons) and reptiles. Some interesting endemic animals are the Gallotia lizards and the blind Munidopsis polymorpha crabs found in the Jameos del Agua lagoon, which was formed by a volcanic eruption. The island is also home to one of two surviving populations of the threatened Canarian Egyptian vulture.
There are five hundred different kinds of plants on the island, of which 17 species are endemic. These plants have adapted to the relative scarcity of water in the same way as succulents. They include the Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis), which is found in damper areas of the north, the Canary Island pine (Pinus canariensis), ferns, and wild olive trees (Olea europaea). Laurisilva trees, which once covered the highest parts of Risco de Famara, are rarely found today. After winter rainfall, the vegetation comes to a colourful bloom between February and March.
There are five hundred different kinds of plants on the island, of which 17 species are endemic. These plants have adapted to the relative scarcity of water in the same way as succulents. They include the Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis), which is found in damper areas of the north, the Canary Island pine (Pinus canariensis), ferns, and wild olive trees (Olea europaea). Laurisilva trees, which once covered the highest parts of Risco de Famara, are rarely found today. After winter rainfall, the vegetation comes to a colourful bloom between February and March.
Dolomites
The history of the Brentei refuge originates from a small summer hut built by the Gigioti Bolza family, originally from Ragoli, in the 1930s. A hut built in the heart of the Brenta Dolomites which within a short time was ready to host the most daring mountaineers who immediately made it a key link for the alpinists.
Thinking about the Brenta Dolomites, it would be difficult for us to imagine tropical beaches, yet history teaches us that the current spiers, millions of years ago, were atolls on which animal and plant species present today at equatorial latitudes lived. The orogeny that occurred over the millennia has raised these underwater rocks, slowly shaping them to their current morphology.
Portugal
Oceanário de Lisboa – their mission is to encourage people to learn more about the ocean and make all citizens aware of their duty to conserve their natural heritage, by changing their behaviour.
Bucharest
In 1980, the megalomaniac president Ceausescu proposed the idea of renovating the city. This involved demolishing a fifth of the city’s buildings and replacing them with unaesthetic, Soviet-style buildings. This caused Bucharest to lose a large part of its monumental heritage.
In 1989, the Revolution brought the communist regime down, but marks can still be seen throughout the city.
After so much destruction Bucharest is still trying to recover the magic of its historical centre.
Malsano 