salviamo il Carapax subito

VENERDI 17 APRILE SI VUOLE CHIUDERE IL CENTRO CARAPAX ? PETIZIONE D?AIUTO Venerdi 17 aprile, cio?enerdi dopo Pasqua, la Comunit?ontana di Massa Marittima vuole chiudere il Centro Carapax, e prenderne la gestione estromettendo i responsabili della International Foundation che dal 1989 su mandato dell?Unione Europea hanno creato il Centro Carapax. Il Centro nonch?utte le strutture, il know how e la denominazione Centro Carapax sono legalmente di propriet?ella RANA mentre la Comunit?ontana era in passato solo un ente intermediario per la gestione di terreni appartenenti alla regione Toscana. Si tenta quindi di rubare 20 anni di duro lavoro, quasi 3 milioni di euro di investimenti da parte di privati, associazioni e fondazioni e 17.000 animali sotto la tutela e responsabilit?ella International Rana Foundation, e di propriet?i migliaa di soci, enti parchi italiani e esteri spesso in prestito a scopo di riproduttivo per la salvaguardia della specie. Si mette cosi a reppentalio la vita di tanti animali, si vuole distruggere una decina di poste di lavoro. E un offesa per 2000 volontari di tutta la toscana, di tutta l?Italia, di tutto l?Europa che in questi 20 anni hanno reso il Centro Carapax grande! AIUTATECI AD IMPEDIRE QUESTO FIRMANDO LA PETIZIONE. GRAZIE. CRIMINAL ACT AGAINST EUROPE?S FIRST TURTLE AND TORTOISE RESCUE CENTRE! On next April 17th at 9 o? clock AM the local ?comunit?ontana? , a kind of intercomunal burocratic entity that manages demanial land for the Tuscan region s coming to the CARAPAX centre at Massa Marittima, to put the whole centre under sequester and to close it down. The friends of CARAPAX know that since years the comunit?ontana is putting obstacles against CARAPAX. This burocratic local political structure is being manoeuvred between International RANA Foundation and the Tuscan region who adhered formally to the CARAPAX scheme as it was originally established between the EU Commission and RANA. In 1989 the Tuscan region had offered as contribution suitable buildings for the purpose of the CARAPAX project including breeding programmes, research and reintroduction of chelonians in the wild. It was elected as the best EU project. Unfortunately CARAPAX got only ruins in rent for 35 years and was forced to restaure them by itself. The EU gave structural funds to do so (ca 375.000 Euro) but it went in the hands of this comunit?ontana who have stolen part of it, restaured badly the buildings, cancelled RANA as partner in the restauration scheme and afterwards tried to pull RANA out of its own centre and project! Since then it never stopped. Only temporary interruptions of the hostilities were there when the EU Commission intervened or when the Belgian Environment Minister came to Italy to stop this madness. In 2007 CARAPAX was again under brutal attack and a juridical investigation was inflicted to the centre with the result that there were no irregularities and that CARAPAX was clean. The only thing still going on is the accusation of keeping and having received snapping turtles etc. The accusation came from the forestry dept, who had brought the animals themselves to CARAPAX earlier! Moreover the RANA Foundation has asked already 10 years ago the permits to keep these snappers, but first the Prefect controlled the facilities with positive result, than forgot to give a formal autorisation and finally lost the dossier?. Now the comunit?ontana awaiting the final result of the dispute ? beginning 2010 ? about the buildings at CARAPAX asked and got a cautelative sequester of these, but tries to give a larger interpretation to this sequester, namely to sequester the whole centre, stealing 7 people?s job, stealing know how, structures financed by private societies, private persons and the EU as well as stealing and putting at risk 17.000 chelonians, 100 White Storks, who are breeding now, and 11 Donkeys and putting al these fragile creatures in the hands of incompetent people!