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Contested amendment on the Triglav National Park Law
- Date :
- 17/04/2008
- Keywords :
- Law Protection Slovenia
from Triglav National Park
"The draft was prepared at the Ministry of the environment in February 2008. By our opinion the draft does not contain the necessary elements to protect the area of Triglav according to standards of IUCN category II - so it the protected area cannot be declared national park by definition.IUCN
The draft was accepted by the government at the session on 8 April 2008.
The draft of the law on Triglav national park is on the agenda of the Parliament after four years. This new draft is equally or even more unacceptable from the view of protection of nature and ecosystems as the first one.
The number of nongovernment organisations tied in the Coalition for the Triglav national park have been trying to change the major anthropocentric view of the nature or rather consumer/capital view and appetites for this space for already four years now.
But in vain. The result is about to come to the first reading in the Parliament. In our opinion unacceptable law: long, inexact, promising a lot but not capable to achieve - will not be able to protect one of the larger protected nature areas in the Alps. On the contrary, because many of the exceptions and unsuitable zoning the natural park will be diminished to 33% of the original protected space – all the other space will be used. There will be no peace for the plants, animals and not even for the visitors of the park, because the appetites of all sorts have prevailed: sport, hunting, forestry, agriculture, traffic, etc. and especially the land owners.
It is specially dangerous that the such an important law is proposed to be processed by the urgent or accelerated procedure. As far as we know, the board of the chairman of the parliament is to decide about the speed of the procedure on Friday 11 April 2008. We think that there is no need for such a hurry – this would only mean that a reasonable discussion on the law is abolished. A law that would affect all inhabitants of Slovenia would be accepted because of the forced decision by a small majority of the members of the parliament.
The coalition for the Triglav national park has sent an , where we stated that we expect to have a two month public discussion as prescribed by the law on nature protection and that this discussion would finally allow improvement of the text that would include modern approaches for efficient nature protection and better living conditions for the local communities.urgent letter to the minister for environment
Our collection of the documents in Slovenian is on chapter Predlog novega zakona o TNP
, more official disclosures can be found on the Documents on "Ministry of the environment and spacial planning"
The documents for the law draft are only in Slovenian on " Priprava novega zakona o Triglavskem narodnem parku"
Triglav National Park