The interviews I’ve done in Italy, were very interesting and mainly very useful. I met professors and Caulerpa experts in Bari, Ancona, Pisa and Rome. They agve me a lot of information about Italian policies about this environmental problem. To be honest, I was disappointed when I heard some things – Montenegro is not the only doing nothing in fighting Caulerpa. Italian government had some projects, gave decent amount of money, but, as these experts say, no one really care about this anymore. This algae is spread over all southern part of Italian Adriatic, as well in Ligurian and Tyrenian sea.
The problem in Italy is they did not take any action in time, Caulerpa spread and now they can not do anything – just let her live, die and don’t cry
Expersts, who must take all the initiative for each project, say the cooperation is essential, but, so far, they did not have any common project with Montenegro.
But, then Bojana got the fellowship and went to Italy to establish cooperation between Italy and Montenegro
I met Mrs. Marina Pulcini, from Italian Ministry of Environment. She also cooperates with NGO “Marevivo”. This NGO planned to come to Montenegro in August, bring here some professors and people from the Ministry of environment for some project, not related to algae problem. But, during my interview with Mrs. Pulcini, she asked me to be her connection with Montenegrin counterparts as they could use this stay in Montenegro also to talk about Caulerpa problem. Their plan is to make workshop on Caulerpa, during which they will confront the opinions of experts and Ministry officials.
I gave her contacts of our experts and informed them about coming of Italians. Now, it’s up on them to fix the details, but Italian expedition is coming on August 22 and I will be their guest.
So, did I lie when I said in my application that caulerpa would connect us again?