Ciudad Real (EFE).- Several environmental organizations have publicly called for the dismissal of the director-conservator of the Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park, Carlos Ruiz de la Hermosa.
The request for cessation has been formulated by the Manchego Ecologists Association of Daimiel, the ANEA Ecologist Association of Villarrubia de los Ojos, Ecologists in Action of Ciudad Real and the Ojos del Guadiana Vivos Association.
The vocal representative of the regional environmental NGOs on the Board of the National Park, Rafael Ubaldo Gosálvez Rey, on behalf of these organizations, has told EFE that they consider the continuity of the current director-curator of Las Tablas de Daimiel to be unfeasible.
And they have justified it by the fact that he has been questioned on numerous occasions since his appointment “by a management characterized by worsening the already painful situation of the park, with very aggressive solutions, almost always based on harsh environmental solutions, without respect for the park ”.
The environmental NGOs, united for the first time to request the cessation
Gosálvez has commented that it is the first time that all the local and provincial NGOs jointly request the dismissal of the current director-conservator of the “battered” national park.
This union has been achieved “due to the savage intervention carried out last summer in the itinerary to visit the Isla del Pan and which involved the entry of trucks and excavators, once again, to dredge the basin of the wetland, solely for the purpose of environmentally make up the situation of the national park before tourists and before politicians, all with the incomprehensible endorsement of the CSIC”.
For its part, the ANEA Ecologist Association of Villarrubia de los Ojos has indicated that “it is unheard of, the bulldozers have destroyed everything in their path, destroying even repopulations carried out by schools and associations.”
They state that the intervention on the Isla del Pan was “one of the greatest
Ecologistas Manchegos de Daimiel has described the action as “one of the biggest ecological attacks within the National Park” and has recalled that the environmental evaluation only allowed 30 centimeters to be dredged, but there are areas in which up to a meter and a half have been dredged.
And he added that “the slime or swamp mucus has returned to the area of action and the reeds are growing again, which demonstrates the scientific and technical failure of the operation.”
Remember that in 2014 the dismissal of the director was also requested
Environmentalists recall that it is not the first time that the dismissal of the director of Las Tablas de Daimiel has been requested, since in 2014 the collective ‘Salvemos Las Tablas ¡YA!’ He requested it for “continuous aggressive interventions against the park.”
They have recalled that an example of these actions was the destruction of cultural architectural elements, the affectation of the archaeological heritage or the indiscriminate pruning of the centuries-old forest of tamarisk trees on the Isla del Pan.
They have also recalled the intervention with machinery in the marsh vegetation without respecting the breeding periods of waterfowl, boat rides by people not related to the park, the destruction with heavy machinery of colonies of kestrels and common bee-eaters and the continuous obstruction of the work of environmental groups.
They see lack of foresight and planning
For Rafael Gosálvez, a member of the Board of Trustees, all the actions follow the same pattern: lack of foresight and planning and actions that are carried out without previously informing the Board of Trustees, an opaque management that only favors the companies that are involved, generally the public company. swallow.
“Ruiz de la Hermosa is not the director that Las Tablas de Daimiel needs to face the very serious climatic and environmental emergency that the national park is suffering, comparable to or even worse than that suffered by Doñana and the Mar Menor,” Gosálvez stressed.
In his opinion, Ruiz de la Hermosa is a director who “only clings to transfers from the Tagus to save Las Tablas, allying himself in this way with the agrarian speculators who have depleted the groundwater, the national park and the La Mancha wetlands”.