The "Praterie" (Grasslands) Project aims at the long-term conservation of grasslands and pastures in the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park. The Park Authority is the only subject and coordinator of this project, and all the operation services are involved.
Premise of the project is the fact that the conservation of the different types of habitats cannot exclude the careful and sustainable management of the production activities connected with them, such as extensive farming and tourism.
Therefore, according to strategies and actions that have been widely shared with those subjects interested in the territory, the project aims at intervening on different levels to remove or reduce the existing problems through different actions: the harmonization of the grazing system, more careful ways to manage the tourist services, the spread of good conservation practices and of a new culture of sustainable utilization.