Sardinia is a “universe”. Its fauna tells of a paradise where men are surrounded by species that find an ideal habitat in the Island, an enchanted place to thrive or return to live. This is the common thread of the series “I personaggi della natura”, seven volumes coming out for Ilisso and dedicated to the fauna of Sardinia, edited by the naturalist photographer and writer Domenico Ruiu, distributed from April 12 with L'Unione Sarda.
Each volume will be monothematic and will describe a typical species of the Island, a story that will examine various aspects, from the description to the situation in Sardinia (distribution, risk factors, conservation) and then continue with observations and photographs, the story of traditions and legends, up to numerous external contributions with insights, notebooks of the photographers themselves or other authors who want to testify an emotion linked to the eagle or the Sardinian mouflon. The volumes will therefore be divided into seven stories that have as protagonists the golden eagle, the barn owl, the Giara di Gesturi (territorial pretext to talk about the mythical horses), the Sardinian deer, the pink flamingo, the griffon vulture and the Sardinian mouflon. Each issue will be monographic and will tell the world of these species that perhaps best represent the environment of the Island, also because these are animals that have never, or almost never, abandoned Sardinia despite having experienced difficult times with a fairly high risk of extinction in some periods. Resilience, however, was there and today we can tell their new story.
The Flamingos (April 12)
The first volume is dedicated to the flamingo. The story of the king of the lagoons, from Molentargius and Santa Gilla to the ponds of Oristano and the wetlands of much of Sardinia, is instead entrusted to the ornithologists Sergio Nissardi and Carla Zucca, and to the doctor (discoverer of a syndrome that today is called by his surname) Giangiorgio Crisponi, a photographer capable, as Domenico Ruiu says, of "pure poetry" with his images of flamingos. The editor of the volumes, moreover, in his contribution, tells "The pink flamingo in Sardinia between poetry, history and legend" through the rhymes of the poet and writer from Oristano Peppetto Pau.
