The Comptroller General of the Republic urged the National government to reduce the deforestation in the country, and considered “It is urgent to stop this environmental massacre, which means that every year around 170,000 hectares of forest are cut down on average”
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That is, daily they are deforesting 500 hectares of forest, explained the comptroller delegate for the environment, Gabriel Jurado.
“More than 30 years ago, in 1990, Colombia had something like 65 million hectares of forest. Today that amount is in the order of 59 million. In other words, we have lost more than 5 million forests in that period.”, he pointed out.
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considered this to be a very serious situation because it is causing irreparable damage to the environment.
“The issue of climate change is hitting us and about 60% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are emitted in the country is the product of burning“Jury added.
Faced with this situation, the Comptroller placed its magnifying glass on the Colombian Development Plan which set as a goal the reduction of deforestation by 30%.
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In the eye of the control body are also the actions carried out by the environmental authorities and, in general, the results in terms of the reduction of the phenomenon and the investment of financial resources.
DEFORESTATION IN THE COLOMBIAN AMAZON
This area of the country is the most affected by deforestation, according to the Comptroller, 65% of this scourge is concentrated in this territory.
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During 2020, the control entity found that the plans and national policies are not fully implemented, or “sand put into practice late”, said the authority.
In addition, he warned that the strategies that have been designed do not advance in the way that is expected. In addition to this, there is a low allocation of resources by the State and greater international financing.
“Likewise, weaknesses were evidenced in terms of management and control of forest exploitation permits granted by environmental authorities.”, indicated the Comptroller.
Another of the regions that most concerns the supervisory body is the Choco, department in which he found a weakness in the monitoring of timber forest resources.
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