Mitigation of environmental damage by monitoring chemical biological indices of disturbed soil

The Soil Biodiversity platform has invited researchers, politicians, decision-makers, industries, and states to seriously consider soil biodiversity conservation, including all kinds of microorganisms: ‘The maintenance of soil biodiversity is essential to both the environment and agricultural industries.’ Moreover, since 2015, the ‘Cross-Sector Biodiversity Initiative (CSBI)’ has presented a platform for the development and sharing of ‘good practices’ to be implemented concerning the protection and restoration of ‘biodiversity’ in extractive activities. This platform is a collaborative tool to access the knowledge and collective experience of experts in the sector. It provides practical guidance, innovative approaches, and examples to support mitigation operationalizing. In addition, CSBI has developed some guides to limit, as far as possible, the negative impacts on the biodiversity of development projects and activate the processes of mitigating the damage and recovery of biodiversity. Our study aimed to assess the severity of soil disturbance in an industrial area using chemical-biological indicators and to suggest mitigation and restoration activities. For soil quality restoration, it was necessary to encourage land management practices to increase the levels of organic matter and soil biodiversity. In particular, minimum soil tillage and no-tillage practices to maintain soil cover, improve its structure, maintenance, and increase of perennial plants, and finally, careful/limited use of fertilizers. The chemical-biological indices after one year have highlighted a clear improvement in the state of health of the soil in chemical-physical, microbiological, and entomo-fauna terms. The soil and its entire community of living beings can adapt and react to difficulties