PNS - Sila National ParkIn order to guarantee the economic-social development of the population, the Park promotes the experimentation of methods of administration of the territory that are suitable and in fulfilling and sustaining the integration between man and natural environment in order to preserve the nature.

The Park promotes, also through agreements with State, Regions and local agencies, new compatible productives activities in innovative sectors and it also protects the cultural traditional values.

The plan of the Park is integrated with the measures of conservation of the Net System Nature 2000. Sila National Park includes in its territory 25 Nets of Communitary interest, 1 Net of National interest and 3 Areas of Special Protection and, therefore, offers opportunities for the integration of the Directive Habitat with the institutional system of the protected areas in Italy. So, Sila National Park has formulated a Plan of the Park integrated with the Conservation Measures for the Ecological System.

• Conservation measures allow the sustainable management of foresty and the use of its resourses also throught biomass exploitation.

• At the moment, Sila National park has not

been able to implement the conservation measures of the Net System Nature 2000, because they haven’t been approved yet by Calabria Region.

Sila National Park has partecipated in the Call of the Italian Ministry of the Environment «Renewable Energies» presenting a project based on Directive 2009/28/EC and including actions related to energy efficiency in the public and private sector.

Actions in the public sector:-Replacement and installation of biomass boilers in 8 public buildings-Photovoltaic shelter for sustainable mobility-Training courses for engineers, designers and installers on renewable energiesActions in the private sector:-Call for the construction of biomass boilers and solar thermal systems in private houses and tourist facilities-Call for the implementation of photovoltaics systems on private houses and tourist facilities-Call for electric bikes and mountain bikes for the mobility inside the Park