The brown bear is one of the most valuable representatives of the biological diversity of Montenegro, the importance of which we are obviously not aware of and we are slowly collapsing it day by day, the Center for the Protection and Study of Birds (CZIP) announced today.
Two men are suspected of having killed a bear in the Dragišnica region the night before last.
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"The brown bear that lives in our area is part of the population of the Dinaric Massif, the second largest in Europe. It is important to note that after the restoration of independence, the state of Montenegro signed a large number of conventions whose basic postulates it is unable to respect, and according to them it refers to natural and We should not go further than the Constitution of Montenegro, which establishes that everyone, especially the state, is obliged to protect and improve the environment, as well as that confirmed and published international agreements are an integral part of the internal order that have primacy over domestic legislation. For the umpteenth time, yesterday the Constitution was trampled on, or better said, shot at," said the CZIP statement signed by Aleksandar Perović, a graduate biologist and mammalogist.
The non-governmental organization (NGO) said that after the shooting of a male bear in the Tara canyon near Matešava in 2018, a bear in the Mala Rijeka canyon in 2020, and a female-mother in Berane in February of this year, news arrives about a bear being killed in the Park. nature Dragišnica-Komarnica.
"According to the tried-and-tested recipe, the competent institutions will play games of deaf phones, at the end of which the animal species that are responsible for the declaration of this area as a Nature Park will always be killed. And then, when the police have done their job, the prosecution will fail and turn a blind eye to the evidence. Why and would not, taught the system to pump up statistics in short order. In their favor, of course. To make matters worse, in July of last year, the state of Montenegro adopted the Rome Strategic Plan (Rome Strategic Plan, based on the Berne Convention), according to which committed to reducing the poaching rate in Montenegro by 50% by 2030. We are on the right track, aren't we? The ink on the paper hasn't even dried yet, we are raising the poaching rate to a higher level. We are sure that we didn't even read what we were signing." , says the CZIP announcement.
They said that from today, decision-makers and politicians no longer have the right to promote Montenegro as a green destination.
"You have no right to invite tourists to enjoy the wilderness of our most beautiful country. Constant empty promises and lies. From minister to minister, without distinction. Dear citizens of Montenegro, coexistence between large animals and humans is possible. This is not the way," the statement concluded. CZIP.
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