Agent Green and the Animal Rights Coalition are calling on Parliament to set up a parliamentary inquiry committee to analyse the work of former Environment Minister Barna Tanczos, who they claim "blocked the implementation of the National Bear Conservation Plan."
"His bill is one that shows not only his desperation, but also his main objective in central politics, his obsession with opening up bear trophy hunting. I also assume that not all MPs are hunters and that at least 50 out of two parliamentary groups will find themselves investigating Barna's activity which I consider criminal. If Parliament does not react then we will sue the Ministry for not implementing the Plan and we will denounce Barna to the DNA [National Anticorruption Directorate] because all the blood of bears, people and livestock is on his hands," president of Agent Green and representative of the Animal Rights Coalition Gabriel Paun is quoted as saying in a press release”, agerpres reports.
According to the signatory organisations of the initiative, the Ministry of Environment approved in July 2018 the National Bear Population Conservation Plan under the leadership of Gratiela Gavrilescu.
The National Plan providing for coexistence measures includes the "Coexistence" Programme, which was to be financed through the Environmental Fund Administration (AFM), includes direct support for farmers to equip themselves with means of protection against bears.
In this context, Agent Green and the Animal Rights Coalition call on the Romanian Parliament to initiate a Committee of Inquiry into the activities of Barna Tanczos, and on the Ministry of Environment to urgently update and apply the National Plan for the Conservation of Bear Populations, as well as to cancel Order No. 2183/2023 approving the level of intervention and prevention in the case of the brown bear species.
On Friday, Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Senator Tanczos Barna announced that he will submit a bill to regulate, as a transitional measure, the control of the phenomenon of brown bear habitat expansion, namely the reintroduction of hunting based on a quota established on the basis of studies conducted by research institutes and universities in Romania.
The draft to be tabled in Parliament provides for the reintroduction of hunting, based on quotas established following studies.
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