The "Gianfranco Merli" national environment prize was awarded to the Dianae Lacus foundation, the organization that works in the Lake of Nemi area in the Rome province. The organization has the task to rebuild one of the two roman ships that were destroyed during World War II. The prize, promoted by the environmentalist association Movimento Azzurro in collaboration with the European Foundation of Environmental Education, Bandiere Blu Italia, Libertas and Associazione Mare e Marinai, was awarded to the chiefs of Dianae Lacus with this motivation: they supported the initiative to rebuild the two roman ships that were found in the Nemi lake and that are part of the patrimony of the humanity. The prize was delivered in Rome in the premises of the Luigi Sturzo institute. The prize was awarded before Nemi mayor, lawyer Alessandro Biaggi, Diane Lacus association chiefs and Movimento Azzurro chairman Rocco Chiriaco. Dianae Lacus's project has already built a part of the first ship in the area outside the entrance of the museum of the Roman ships in Nemi. They have exposed a reconstruction of the central keel of the ship. Mayor Biaggi during today's ceremony stressed the importance given by the municipality to the valorisation of the area.