Thanks to Cbm Spa and Arbolia planted 3680 new trees
di Martina D'Onofrio
Not many know that Rome is the largest agricultural municipality in Europe, thanks to the widespread image of a crowded and chaotic capital. Yet let's talk about greenest city on the continent with over 16.000 hectares of protected nature, natural monuments and reserves. Among these, the largest - with its 6000 hectares - is right there Decima Malafede Nature Reserve, area where the Bio-Medico Campus is located. A University integrated into a Research Center and a University Hospital surrounded by greenery, which aim for development increasingly in synergy with nature, through the creation of a multifunctional center where research, training and care can meet creativity, sport and well-being.
The objective is the cohabitation of green, protected, agricultural systems with services for the person with a view to urban redevelopment. To reach it, Campus Bio-Medico SpA, promoter of the University, is already working through concrete initiatives such as the one carried out last spring in collaboration with Arbolia, a benefit company born from the collaboration between Snam and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti for the development of projects dedicated to the reduction and absorption of carbon dioxide.
And so the forest of the Bio-Medico Campus was born, made up of 3.680 trees and shrubs: English oak, Turkey oak, cork oak, mountain ash, flowering ash, field maple, black alder, bone ash, white poplar, black poplar, white willow together with shrub species such as elder, hawthorn, spindle dogwood, wild plum, privet, wild apple and common broom. A planting aimed at making the urban fabric more sustainable and inaugurated with a ceremony dedicated to the staff who have spent themselves in the fight against the pandemic in recent years. "It is a innovative project inserted in a wider program of environmental, educational and social initiatives, the Social Green Masterplan, which in the next few years renews the process of virtuous transformation of this peripheral area into a more livable place for the present and to ensure health and well-being for generations future", has explained Dominic Mastrolitto, general manager of Campus Bio-Medico SpA, illustrating a model of sustainability and development, "understood as a space of public utility ed ecologically inserted, for a reunification between man and nature and to improve the quality of life of citizens, students, employees and patients of the Polyclinic".
