Congress: Forestry and Wildlife Act sent back to Andean People’s and Agrarian Commission

The plenary session of the Congress approved – by 57 votes in favor, 46 against and 6 abstentions – the preliminary issue of the Forestry and Wildlife Act for submission to the Andean People’s Commission. It was also approved – with 88 votes in favor, 19 against and 3 abstentions – the request to return the Agrarian Commission as the main commission.

The Sector of the Parliament was intended to approve, at the urging of Bills 649, 894 and 2315, aimed at amend the Forestry and Wildlife Act. Despite executive oversight, the Congresswomen’s initiative Elizabeth Medina D Lady Camones managed to be included in the agenda of this Monday, 29 August.

Objects such as Serfor (National Forest Service), Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Ombudsman and SPDA (Peruvian Society for Environmental Law) opposed the project and warned of the danger it could pose to the ecosystem.

What is expected to change?

Former Advisor to the Special Commission on Climate Change Henry Horn told the RPP that this initiative aims to remove decision-making power from the Ministry of the Environment and transfer it to the Ministry of Agriculture, a situation that would make the approach to environmental conservation extractive.

“Basically, the abbot, who corresponds to the Ministry of the Environment, is transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture. Minam has specialized institutions in the field of forest protection and care. to his extractive and productive vocation, will focus more on production and extraction. What is changing here is the country’s approach to caring for the environment, and the main part, which is practically a commission that the international community has given to Peru,” he said. .

He also added that Peru has committed itself to the international community to achieve the goals by 2030; therefore it is important to take this situation into account.

“As a country, we are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions as part of the world’s efforts to combat climate change. We have set goals for 2030. And since we are not an industrialized country, the only way to avoid an increase in greenhouse gases is to take care of the forests and the territorial sea,” he stressed.

In addition, he believed that initiative contains a trapas it is intended to use the agricultural flag for purely commercial purposes.

“We can apply the vision of sustainability to forest management. We can use the forests, but at the same time they must be restored. This is a complex and delicate management, because it does not grow in a year or six months. may take 30 to 40 or 50 years to reach its full production space. What is being done is doing what is being done to make it possible to use some forests in a sustainable way, but this is the trap: in practice we know that this is not the case. What they do is plunder the forest, sell the forest and with the devastated lands start planting corn that has nothing to do with it, and eventually they deplete it. commercial aspect,” he said.

The project is a copy of another presented in 2019

In accordance with bakeproject This is a copy of an initiative presented by the government of former President Martin Vizcarra in 2019.which was archived by Parliament.

“This bill is a copy and a copy of another that the executive has already submitted in 2019 and filed. And here comes the congresswoman, inflaming the issue. It makes us think that the lobby is behind it. Just like that, the law is not reanimated,” he said.