This year among the festive and colorful floats of the Viareggio Carnival there is a very special one. It is the Greenpeace wagon that yesterday paraded in the Tuscan town to denounce the risks that the stretch of sea running right in front of Viareggio, or the so-called Cetacean Sanctuary.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
This year, among the festive and colorful floats of the 2011 Carnival in Viareggio, there is a very special one. It is the Greenpeace wagon that yesterday paraded in the Tuscan town to denounce the risks that the stretch of sea that faces right in front of Viareggio, or the so-called Cetacean Sanctuary, runs.
"We need a shrine, not a cemetery". So says the special chariot, made by the manufacturer Carlo Lombardi, which symbolizes just how man is destroying our seas by polluting them, fishing them wildly - if not illegally - and building offshore oil rigs. What if nature rebels against all of this? This is the meaning of the great shark that emerges from the waters of the allegorical float behind which the activists of Greenpeace, the warriors of the rainbow, ask to save the whales of the Cetacean Sanctuary, the protected marine area that extends from Tuscany to to the north of Sardinia, the Cote d'Azur and Liguria.
“For years we have been denouncing the growing degradation of the area - says Giorgia Monti, head of the Greenpeace Mare campaign - but, instead of decreasing, the threats increase. Lastly, the crazy project of the offshore regasification plant that will be built right in front of these coasts.
Instead of protecting whales and dolphins as promised, the institutions are transforming the Sanctuary into a cemetery».
Just think of the OLT offshore regasification regasifier which is about to be built off the coast between Pisa and Livorno without an actual assessment of the impact that chlorine and noise produced by the plant would cause on this delicate marine ecosystem.
To ask to "Save the Cetacean Sanctuary" also a huge one inflatable whale of 15 meters positioned along the route.
