The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development requested, through precautionary measure presented in the Federal Court of Victoria, Entre Ríosthe application of the sanctions provided for in the article 22 and successive of the Fire Management Law, for the fires in the Delta, It was officially reported this Tuesday.
Said articles of Law 26,815 establish that rural lots where fires occur may not change their use for a period of 60 years in the case of protected areas and 30 years when they occur in unprotected areas.
The deadline is recompose and repair the environmental area affected by firesand it is the responsibility of the provincial jurisdictions and the Justice to apply the recomposition and repair actions that are established in the current norm, the Environment portfolio indicated in a statement.
The actions of the Ministry of the Environment in the Federal Justice in Entre Ríos started in mid julywhen images detected by the Conservation Lighthouses were presented to provide georeferenced evidence of the igneous sources.
Likewise, On August 9, The Environment Minister, Juan Cabandié, and the Deputy Minister, Sergio Federovisky, traveled to the city of Victoria to expand the information presented and request the province to provide data on the land that repeatedly had fires.
“The precautionary measure presented today is part of the set of actions that are carried out to urge the Justice to sanction those responsible for the forest fires in the Paraná Delta,” the Ministry said.
The first complaint on fires in the Delta settled in June 2020 in Federal Court No. 2, in charge of Judge Daniel Edgardo Alonso.
Currently, a hydrant plane and two helicopters operate in the area, and 12 brigade members and support personnel affected by fire fighting belonging to the Argentine Federal Police provide assistance; and 10 people from the National Parks Administration are ready to join.
Smoke again in Rosario
For its part, the city of Rosario woke up today again covered by the smoke generated by the burning of grasslands on the Entre Ríos islands on the Paraná River, for which the Road Safety authorities asked drivers to increase caution due to the low visibility in streets and highways, while medical consultations due to respiratory difficulties continue to rise, official sources reported.
The main focus of the fire is in front of the Santa Fe town of Esthe villager, located on the outskirts of Rosario and due to the wind the smoke spread rapidly towards the city.
For this reason, spokesmen for Road safety They asked the drivers to take all care in the Circunvalación and the accesses to Rosario in order to avoid accidents, since visibility is greatly reduced.
Added to this, the National Meteorological System (SMN) reported this morning about the presence of fog banks in the region, which make driving conditions even more difficult.
For his part, from the Environmental Observatory of the National University of Rosario (UNR) remarked that, before the advance of the smoke, the consultations of inhabitants by breathing difficulties multiply.
intentional fires
According to judicial investigations and public complaints from the national and provincial governments, the fires in the area of the Paraná River Delta are unleashed in your most on purpose and of repeatedly in the same fields, where that practice is used to condition the ground for different agricultural activities or real estate businesses.
According to data from the Environmental Observatory, only in the Esther People burned more than 300,000 hectares since 2020, despite the constant complaints and demonstrations of the residents, who are already evaluating a new cut of the Rosario-Victoria bridge for this weekend.
Days ago, national deputies that make up the Natural Resources Commission met in the Deliberative Council of the city of Rosario to discuss projects on the environment, accompanied by organizations from the sector.
The objective of the meeting was to advance on proposals that make up a new wetland law, which protects the region while coexisting with business development, as reported.
