The Canary Islands government wants to adopt a lax law without regard to the scientific community to check out the biodiversity of the Canary Islands. Everyone against the new Catalog of Protected Species!
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spoil your good business. This seems to be the watchword of the government of the Canary Islands (Canary Coalition and PP), according to the indignation aroused by his last bill, which aims to print or check out half of the species and subspecies of animals and plants of these islands. If the bill goes ahead, the new Catalog of Protected Species removed from the list to 226 species, diminish the protection given to 131 of them and protect 94 of a very particular way. In the latter case, tell me if it smells fishy to ensure the plant or animal only if it is within a given space. In other words, if the plant or animal is outside it, or what is, if it bothers to build a golf course , or a housing estate or any other urban area, there would be utterly, and threatening them not would be an environmental offense, but simple administrative offense. A madness.
How could it be otherwise, environmentalists and scholars have been outraged, and have accused the government of jeopardizing canary hundreds of species of plants and animals, reducing their protection status of urban and infrastructure interests.
I have said bluntly personalities such as Juan José Bacallado, former director of the Museum de Ciencias Naturales, o especialistas como Pedro Oromí Masoliver, catedrático de zoología. Ambos acusan a Coalición Canaria de tener intereses económicos:
Coalición Canaria quiere quitarse de en medio un montón de especies protegidas que entorpecen proyectos de supuesto interés social, pero ya sabemos con qué facilidad se declara en Canarias cualquier obra como de interés general.
Además, se rebaja descaradamente la categoría de especies molestas, como es el caso del saltamontes Acrostira euphorbiae, especie muy amenazada que vive en una zona de La Palma, donde se pretende construir un campo de golf.
The biodiversity of the Canary Islands is unique haven for wildlife and home to about 4,000 species and subspecies that exist nowhere else in the world . Its habitat captivated Charles Darwin for two centuries, and remains a place chosen by thousands of nature lovers every year.
However, the ecological treasure volcanic archipelago may suffer a setback unrecoverable. If the government of the Canary Islands, which has already approved a bill, go ahead with it, more than half of the species in the protected list will be homeless. No comments. Well, yes, one more: with approval of the new catalog, large areas that were protected from urban development may receive permission to build. And a question: What remains of some islands if you remove their indigenous nature?From Ben Magec-Ecologists in Action invite us to an important and fun action that is intended to show our political representatives that opposition to "New Catalog of Protected Species Canary has no boundaries. Help us to carry out this action.
Then we explain what to do. It's simple. Download BANNER (JPEG, 850 × 567 pixels) , print it and get a picture with the sign in a representative of your city, for example, if you live in France, you could take a picture with the Eiffel Tower in the background. Then send your photo to email canarias@ecologistasenaccion.org. You can also upload your photos on the Facebook group " I also reject the New Canary Coalition catalog "
With all photos received will be displayed to the Government of the Canary Islands the great mistake being committed. Remember that without your help this would not be possible. Go ahead and help with your photo to stop this madness! Thank you!
(*) fonts news: EcologiaBlog and Collective Turcon (Ecologists in Action)
