Objective
Located only a few kilometres from Rome, the Tevere Farfa nature reserve, designated in 1979, is the only protected section of the Tiber, central Italy's main river. Inside the reserve is Nazzano lake, formed after the Tiber was dammed here, and whose banks are now fringed by willows, poplars and reeds. Because of the increased opportunities for nesting sites it offers. the lake has attracted many species of waterfowl, becoming one of the leading central Italian staging and wintering points for these birds. Consequently, it was included in the Ramsar Convention list of wetlands to be protected. The site is also relevant for the Habitats Directive because of the presence of the habitat type "Constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers: Paspalo-Agrostidion and hanging curtains of Salix and Populus alba".
However, the avifauna has been gradually leaving the site in recent years as a result of habitat loss. Various phenomena underlie this process. The confluence of the Farfa river with the Tiber is filling up with sand, thereby reducing the amount of open water available. The expansion of the reedbeds is also leading to the disappearance of pools and open sections. Certain plant species are disappearing while invasive species are proliferating too strongly.
The project intends to halt the abandonment of the site by its birds through works designed to reconstitute the surroundings required for wintering and nesting. These works will take place at two subsites. One package, at the confluence of the Farfa and Tiber rivers, will reopen the channels through which the tributary flowed, eliminate invasive plant species and, finally, restore 15 ha of wetland by dredging and removal of sediments and reeds. The other, in the Meana zone, is to restore 2 ha of inundated land, threatened with terrestrialization by a build-up of sediment produced by sand and gravel extraction, by digging a channel connecting it to the Tiber and landscaping the banks of sediment.
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00100 Nazzano Roma
Italy
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