The Coalition for Sustainable Development (KOR) reported to UNESCO the latest ecocide on the Tara River, which is under their protection.
"The government's shameful attitude towards one of the most valuable symbols of the ecological state, the Tara river, which is under the protection of UNESCO, comes to full expression right before the upcoming parliamentary elections. In order to show the power of the interest groups that privatized Montenegro, complete devastation and destruction is allowed the environment and the entire river, all because of a handful of arrogant officials who decided to humiliate everything that means partisanship," KOR announced.
They point out that the Tara has been constantly cloudy for the past month, and that today the river, which is normally blue-green, was completely cloudy, brown or almost white, depending on which part of the flow it is.
"In the previous months or years, numerous NGOs and natural persons submitted numerous applications to environmental and communal inspections, but the devastation of the Tara does not stop, it intensifies. In addition to the highway works, the construction of mini-hydropower plants on the tributaries of the Tara and access roads leads to the washing of thousands of tons of sediment, gravel , soil and waste into the Tara bed itself and an unprecedented ecocide occurs - the death of fish and wildlife. This morning, the Coalition for Sustainable Development forwarded to UNESCO photos and videos of the destruction of the I River as proof that in addition to the attempted devastation of the Durmitor National Park and the devastation of the Bokotoros Bay, institutions and the Government of Montenegro do not care about the prestige and protection of the UNESCO status, and all in order to get the investors close to the government to pay as well as possible, during the day the photo and video report on the devastation of Tara will be forwarded to the EU delegation in Montenegro. The Government of Montenegro is systematically and irreversibly destroying natural wealth contrary to EU standards and recommendations, contrary to UNESCO standards and status and contrary to common sense," they said.
They emphasize that nature and the citizens of Montenegro will be the ones who will pay the price for the arrogance of individuals close to the regime, mostly because nature will be irreversibly destroyed:
"And that we will never close the most complicated chapter in EU accession, which is chapter 27 – environmental protection".
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