Illegal concrete flows and coastal soil consumption that erase dunes by swallowing meters of sand, bad - and in many cases absent - water purification, uncontrolled poaching: 23,623 crimes against the marine ecosystem were contested in 2019, with a an increase of 15.6% compared to 2018 while assets for 520 million euros were seized, also growing (+ 11.2%). This is what emerges from Mare Monstrum 2020, the dossier drawn up by the National Environment and Legality Observatory of Legambiente which sees more than half of the infringements contested (52.3%) by the Harbor Office and law enforcement agencies concentrate between Campania, Puglia , Sicily and Calabria. According to Legambiente, even after the end of the lockdown, criminal activities seem to have resumed at full speed.
Sea and coasts, + 15.6% environmental crimes in 2019
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Mare Monstrum Dossier by Legambiente, half infractions in the South (ANSA)Illegal concrete flows and coastal soil consumption that erase dunes by swallowing meters of sand, bad - and in many cases absent - water purification, uncontrolled poaching: 23,623 crimes against the marine ecosystem were contested in 2019, with a an increase of 15.6% compared to 2018 while assets for 520 million euros were seized, also growing (+ 11.2%). This is what emerges from Mare Monstrum 2...
