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The disappearance of the tropical and subtropical
forests is one of the central subjects of the international matters. The battles
conducted in Misiones to protect the restant paranaense forest, are hardly
sufficient to restrain this loss. The criteria of clearing and substitution of
the native forest must be strictly controled.
Although the ozone layer has more press, the progressive disappearance of the
tropical and subtropical forests and the consequent loss of biodiversity,
degradation of the ground and the water, is one of the biggest ecological
problems and than more attention it receives from the international community.
Also, it seemed that all whatever becomes is always insufficient.
The creation of the Ministry of Ecology and the
profusion of environmental laws in the province in the last three decades, as
soon as they have been sufficient in some cases to decelerate, but do not to
stop the constant disappearance of the wooded mass of misionera paranaense
forest, yet what it implies. The expansion of the agrarian and forest border,
without appropriate regulatory parameters, puts in serious danger the physical
disappearance of our provincial characteristic more representative: the monte (mount,
therefore it is called to the Forest in Missions and other zones of
Argentina).
If we limited ourselves to rest on the green
evidence of our satelite images, compared with the desert of our neighbors, we
will be able not to warn, with one more a more accurate vision, than we are
losing the gold by the hole of the package. The misionera forest, as last
significant surplus of the paranaense forest, that originally covered an
extension with 120 million hectares distributed between the Southeast of Brazil,
east of Paraguay and the 3/4 of Misiones, of which it subsists solely as soon as
7 %, represents a tactically important point and high-priority for the
conservation.
A jewel is not single that shines, is one diadema
of which radiates life. Highest quality of life, because it produces clean
water, pure air, landscapes of dream, protection for the animals,
incommensurable forms of life, foods and medicines, works as recolector of toxic
gases, shades, freshness and humidity and insospechables beauty forms. This
wonder, nevertheless, today only represents an inferior wooded cover 40 % of the
territory of Misiones, including a surface of approximately 1,700,000 hectares
of native forest in critic conservation conditions .
This magnificent green portion in the planet has
92 km of inner border with Argentina and than 1000 km distributed more with
Brazil and Paraguay. It is surrounded by two of the greatest rivers of the
world, Parana in his west side and Uruguay in the East, is crossed by a number
of mountain ranges of low height and green cover, with an incredible profusion
of water-bearing river basins, jumps and cascades. In him 58 protected natural
areas exist at the moment (national parks, provincial parks, protected
landscapes, private and municipal reserves) that represent approximately 540.000
hectares to which next new provincial parks in gestation would be added
(Guarambocá and Sierra Morada and the novel Parkway on the coastal route on of
the Uruguay River).
If we lose the biological connection among them
by the disappearance of the forest and the reconversion with exotic, the richest
biodiversity of the Argentine Republic will be lost progressively (of which
Misiones hold more than 2,000 species of plants, 1000 species of vertebrates,
560 species of birds - a 50% of the total of Argentina 116 species of mammals,
150 species of reptiles, 70 of amphibians, 230 species of fish and one
incalculable amount of insects) beginning by those of greater size between those
than one stands out the Jaguar (Panthera Onca) and the Harpía (harpya
harpía) that they inhabit the complex biological world that gives sustenance to
all the wonderful system.
The described development.
The vertiginous process of substitution of the native forest by the implanted
one, must take place, of here in more, with much more preservative criteria
since previous "war of the man against the nature" in which to
civilize was equivalent to disassemble to cultivate has arrived at intolerable
limits and it has become a model of deranged and untenable development.
At the moment the only form to understand the
development is the sustainable development. But this is calificated. It is not
only tried to extend an agony but to revitalize and to prolong great conditions
of biodiversity, the way that allows to the life in all its forms to remain in
the Earth in acceptable biological and moral conditions.
It is not a good signal for the Misiones society,
nor makes honor to seriousness and the respect due to the institutions of the
province, that so with impunity and with the mere economic power, under pretext
of investments and generation of use or wealth, advance dangerously in the
clearing, without a clear concept of the limits. Nobody already discusses
seriously that the operation of the nature has limitations beyond which we put
in risk the survival of the human race.
With the present rate of world-wide
deforestation, we will remain without native forest became year 2025 and towards
2020 half of the known forms of life will have been extinguished in the planet.
What are equivalent to have left us without oxygen, with the rarified atmosphere
and intoxicated with carbon, without animals, foods, potable water and
medicines.
The development of third generation: that is to
say, the knowledge, the technology and the quality of natural life conform the
patterns to that we had to adjust and not copying stupids models that squash
with macroeconomic numbers that are exhausted in the doubtful euphoria of a
generation.
Our responsibilities.
One of estigmas of our contemporary political
culture is in exánime defense of our more elevated interests. When it is in
game the natural patrimony of the province, that is the legacy to the future
missionaries, we must behave so jealously as if it was our personal physical
integrity.
The misionera forest is our more characteristic
identity, is our more valuable patrimony and the frame of our life and culture.
Our forest is more misionera than the music of
Ramon Ayala, than the rapadura, that the mensú, the Iguazú falls or the ruins,
because the mount supposes to all these concepts. The principle of identity of
Misiones is the forest.
The day that we remain without forest, we will
stop being missionaries...
This one is a new and pathetic opportunity to
demonstrate if we are to the height of our responsibilities. If we are worthy of
the Earth that shelters to us. Or if we have surrendered before the empire of
the frivolity without joy.
Now that we have "won" in the fight for
the civilization, we noticed that we must continue fighting, but this time to
save our overcome, that begins to demonstrate us that we had not made another
thing that eliminate the source of our own life and that inadvertently we were
also killing we ourself.
The value of the forest is the value of life.
Rodolfo Fessler
Undersecretary of Ecology of Misiones.
Note published by the newspaper the
Territory , of Posadas, Misiones.
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