Responsibilities and functions
In the Fassa region there are protected areas totalling approximately 6,900 hectares (22% of the entire territory). The presence of natural values of an international level in terms of geology and geomorphology, surface water quality, the widespread presence of wetlands, botanical peculiarities and the largest glacier in the Dolomites, the Marmolada, is evident.
However, what distinguishes the Fassa Network of Reserves is the Dolomite landscape, i.e. the particular morphology of the mountain landscape that here takes on unique characteristics at world level, and characterises both the protected areas and the connecting areas.
The priority of the Fassa Network is the valorisation of the biodiversity heritage represented by the naturalistic and landscape emergencies in the valley, through the systemic approach of connectivity conservation. The concrete objective of the project is to strengthen the environmental infrastructure of the valley by adopting measures and interventions to mitigate the effects of environmental fragmentation on species, communities, ecosystems and ecological processes. The project focuses not only on the protection of a few circumscribed parts of the territory (protected areas), but also on the coordinated management of the surrounding and connecting areas.
The aim of the Fassa Network is to safeguard, support and promote, as fundamental constituent elements of the human presence in mountain areas, the activities and local traditions that refer to civic use, silviculture, livestock breeding, grazing, mountain agriculture, hay cutting, timber harvesting, hunting, fishing, mushroom and forest fruit picking and beekeeping, as well as educational and tourist-recreational activities compatible with the active conservation of ecosystems.
Activated in 2015, the municipalities of Moena, Soraga, Sèn Jan di Fassa, Mazzin, Campitello di Fassa, Canazei and Predazzo, as well as the Comun General de Fascia, the Consorzio dei Comuni Bim Adige - Trento, the Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme and the Regola Feudale di Predazzo (Feudal Rule of Predazzo) adhere to the Network.
