Ecological and environmental organisations have criticised farmers´ organistions and land owners who have objected to the new management plan for conservation areas and have called on the regional goverment to improve protection measures.
“The environment planning is necessary although the technical documents referred to in the Integral Management Plan of the North East (Plan de Gestión Integral (PGI) del Noroeste) could be improved and lack important clauses,” according to the Naturalists Association (Asociación de Naturalistas del Sureste) (ANSE) and BirdLife ( la Sociedad Española de Ornitología) (SEO/BirdLife).
These organisation have presented a document of “allegations” which support the Plan for the natural network in the North East and demand better measures in order to “reach the objectives” put forward in the EU directive and national legislation.
ANSE and SEO/BirdLife also “lament the posture of certain groups in respect of this obligation and consider the Adminstrations´ support to be irresponsble and against the public interest.”
The environmental groups claim the Plan is an opportunity to control the use of water, energy production and minerals and to conserve natural hábitats and natural resources.
They also call for double the 54€ per hectar proposed over the next six years
On the other hand some 5,000 “allegations” have been lodged by COAG and the Federation of Landowners which claim the Plan will put obstacles in the way of economic development and limit the farmers´s rights to cultívate their land.
