“Today, Italy is, in all respects, a forestry nation. The wooded areas have in fact exceeded 100 thousand square kilometers of extension and occupy over a third of the national territory. A figure that marks a significant change, for which from 2020 the forest area has exceeded the agricultural one used: a situation that had not been recorded since the Middle Ages. To photograph this transformation is the report Foreste in Comune, the first socio-economic survey on the forest heritage of the Italian municipalities promoted by PEFC Italia. The analysis shows that the forest has become a central component of the Italian landscape, with a whole series of benefits that derive from the increasingly widespread presence of forest ecosystems.”

From L’Indipendente.