[Terrapreta] ARGENTINE FORESTS ON DANGER

[Benjamin Domingo Bof]

      Ecological danger What happened with the Law of Forests? Saturday 17 of May, 7:30 A.M. (www.saludyciencias.com.ar * Special by Antonio Elio Brailovsky) Sometimes we have the illusion of which an environmental conflict has been solved only because we have listened to a political announcement that said therefore it. Nevertheless, the environmental conflicts, as they are part of the social conflicts, usually do not reach a definitive solution, but they change continuously of form and they require all along of new answers. This one is the situation of the native forests in Argentina.  History; An economic model based on the irrationality and the greed transformed an important part of our forests into smoke and soybean. Before this situation, an important social movement accompanied the slogan to save those forests. Many people and organizations protested against the abusive cutting and more of a million people they signed the petitionary one of Greenpeace to approve a Law
 of protection of the native forests. In that context, National Law Not 26.331 is approved. One is a good advance, but still it is limited. The announcement of which its approval meant the salvation of the native forests appears like excessive for any person who remembers that the laws must be regulated to enter use. The Law of Forests was sanctioned in December of 2007. The approval of a Law by the Congress usually has an ample journalistic cover. However, its regulation by the Executive authority happens unnoticed almost always. Nevertheless, the Law cannot be applied until its prescribed Decree does not exist. The following paradox occurs then: the Law of Forests has a very strict procedure of protection of the natural resources, but in the reality not yet it is applied. But meanwhile another Law can be approved, that it says another thing. Including a law that the opposite says, and that he facilitates the destruction of the native forests. That is to say, that is
 possible that it becomes to the previous situation, of massive clearings, but with the trusting people in which the forests have been saved. The great doubt Will be certain the rumor that speaks of a political negotiation to approve express the Law of Forests at the cost of delaying much its regulation? This situation is not only theoretical: that other Law already is on way. It is to study of the Senate of the Nation a project of Law to authorize the burning fires as tool of agrarian handling, as much of pastures as of forests. The strategy is to transform the authorization to destroy the natural vegetation in a simple bureaucratic proceeding, skipping all the requirements of environmental control that establishes the Law of Forests. It will be enough with filling a list and making seal it by an obliging authority, that says that is not a native forest, to be able to devastate almost any thing. Foreseeably everything would become without studies nor evaluations of
 environmental impact, without territorial ordering and public hearings, of way of being able to burn quickly what they want to burn. When the expert works arrive, they will only find ashes. Incongruities Surprising, this project not even prohibits to burn in urban areas. Still more: it orders to the provinces and the Independent City of Buenos Aires to dictate complementary norms of that Law. I wonder myself if truely they think about the Senate that is a good idea to burn vegetation inside the City of Buenos Aires and in what place of the City would be happened to them to do it. (*) Antonio Elio Brailovsky is writer, expert in ecological subjects and ex--defender of the town in these thematic ones.


       
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