Abruzzo is a region worth caring about — and that means staying informed, getting involved, and sometimes speaking up. Community & Advocacy covers the issues that shape daily life here: local governance, environmental challenges, social initiatives, and the rights and realities of living in Abruzzo as a foreign national. We report with balance and context, but we won’t shy away from calling things out when communities are being let down, overlooked, or pushed around. Because belonging somewhere means more than just living there. It means showing up for it.
Our fight to keep the low quality sticky oil under Abruzzo’s seismic mountains, plains and coastline continues but we need a little bit of a helping hand!
Here’s a very small tribute to the 60 dogs that drowned when left unsupervised in an animal shelter up in Alba Adriatica that had inadequate drainage in the recent flooding
Mediterranean Oil and Gas plc’s project to drill Ombrina Mare has been refused approval by Italian authorities, after protracted protests by residents
There has been a lot of demonstrating in Abruzzo recently against the central Italian government, now it's Abruzzo’s fight to stop oil drilling in the region
