Adopt a tree for your city 
On the occasion of the International Year of Forests, WWF Italy section of Gioia del Colle and the Municipality of Gioia del Colle give life to a great proposed growth and preservation of heritage trees, woodland and forest locally and globally.
The initiative stems from the need to involve citizens in a path that starts from the individual trees will lead to the protection of local woods and forests on the planet.
days will be organized for the adoption of symbolic trees, with a minimum contribution of 5 € to 10 € for citizens and businesses, which will be planted throughout the local area. You have chosen to buy, thanks to the funds of the municipality of Gioia del Colle, WWF, companies and citizens who participate, the vast majority of native species that are well integrated within the local area and may resume the process of reforestation that human activities have made the wicked reverse. For this reason, will be purchased oak trees (Quercus ilex) and other woodland species that during the two Sundays devoted to the "Festival of Trees" will be planted on a public land within the city limits, opening the opportunity for the first forest-urban garden created by the sensitivity of the people. This park will be managed in a "natural" in terms of plant species, with the increase, year after year, small shrubs and undergrowth of trails and resting places unexpended by the citizens. In addition, the entrance to the park will be a plate that, in addition to explaining the reasons and contributions that have allowed the project, will collect the names of those who have adopted a tree symbolically and companies who contributed to the initiative.
Increasingly, in the design of new buildings and homes is omitted to provide space for the Open, of which there is a growing need, given the current increases in emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Modern society and governments often put into the background the usefulness of trees and forests in the economy of the city, forgetting that the very same city where he lives now, the vast majority of the population, need so imperative of rural areas and primary forests for their livelihoods.
is also shown that cities with more green both inside and outside the town are home to citizens and visitors happier and more in harmony with oneself and with nature.
Thus, in addition to the implementation of the forest-urban garden several other species of trees will be planted within districts, in order to make our city greener.
But the initiatives are not limited to planting trees in the area. During the days of collection of applications you can sign a petition calling for the Administration of Gioia del Colle to join the project "City forest friends "which includes measures to the use of recycled paper and wood with FSC (from certified forests). All this because 40% of primary forest has already been destroyed due to indiscriminate felling and illegal trade of legno.Inoltre, the petition requires local administrators to make a census of the forests throughout the municipality, as an instrument for the protection and quick check of the offenses committed against an invaluable asset that grows in many centuries and is destroyed in a matter of minutes.
- Sunday, January 29, 2006: FESTIVAL OF TREES Planting trees on the territory of the city taken by citizens and Sponsor recognition and application of labels. Inauguration of the new forest-urban garden.
- Sunday, February 5, 2006: HELLO PROF. TREE
Pupils of primary schools and junior high - more involved in the planting of trees taken from their classes.
PETITION FOR THE "FRIEND OF THE FOREST CITY"
In International Forestry, given the importance of trees
1. reduction in carbon dioxide of the atmosphere,
2. in increasing the oxygen available for living beings,
3. absorption of pollutants emitted by human activities,
4. nell'assestamento of mountainous and hilly terrain, can block rockfalls and landslides,
5. in maintaining the balance of the hydrogeologic and aquifer
6. in increasing local biodiversity and large-scale global
7. in the proper exploitation of primary resources from which it derives: the wood,
8. well-being created by the presence in large quantities in urban areas,
9. in the psycho-physical benefits created by public parks and gardens,
10. nell'abbellire naturalize and houses, buildings and condominiums, and
also considered
that primary forests are a treasure of the Earth and are irreplaceable for the ecological balance and climate of our planet that the global crisis of forests has become a real emergency, the constant increase in consumption of forest products, pulp and timber rough, with a consequent sharp increase in deforestation processes which are relevant to developing countries, the cut and the illegal trade in timber and forest products contribute greatly to exacerbate environmental degradation and are a source of funding for corruption, wars and conflict in that part of the G8 countries and the European Union, Italy has committed itself to eliminate the market for illegal wood, whereas in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Italy has pledged to reverse the current trend of forest destruction on the planet, and that in the future ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Italy of international commitments for the protection and sustainable development of forest areas, WWF ITALY SEZ.GIOIA
THE HILL AND THE CITIZENS OF GIOIA DEL COLLE signatories of this petition
ASK
the City of Joy Hill, acting as mayor, to enact an ordinance providing for the following points:
· Obligation for all new builders and construction engineers, who want to build the municipal area, to provide green areas to buildings with a perimeter of trees not less than 1 per square meter of total area of \u200b\u200bthe walk (in the case of a detached house) or not less than 1 per 20 sqm Each apartment (in the case of apartment buildings with more than 2 levels, including mezzanine), and, for the same obligation to provide coverage of buildings with a minimum of 20% solar energy (photovoltaic panels) of the total energy used from the structure;
• Adoption by the municipality of the "Convention FSC" which provides for the use by public offices or from recycled paper FSC certified forests, and also plans to give preference in all invitations to tender for the purchase of paper and tissue products (paper for domestic use) recycled with clean technologies and encourage the collection, to give preference in all tender notices for purchases of wood products or derivatives, to those certified according to standards equal to or greater than those defined by the Forest Stewarship Council - FSC (eg. equipment, furniture and wood products), not to use wood from all public buildings the destruction of primary forests, and to give preference to FSC certified materials, to sensitize the citizens on the issue of reuse, recycling and eco-labeling; Development of a census of local wooded areas, with specific information about the constraints identified in Arre, species of particular interest and features of the landscape in order to hold an appropriate instrument that would allow the public to citizens and police to check the condition of the premises before certain actions logging, construction, pollution, violation of constraints and to protect, so the forest in the municipal area.
Oasis Day 2006 
