Camila Gil
08/08/2021 15:50
Clarín.com
Zonal
Updated 08/08/2021 3:50 PM
The Pereyra Iraola Park is a Biosphere Reserve, and one of the most important green lungs of the Río de La Plata.
It is shared by the Municipalities of Berazategui, Ensenada, Florencio Varela and La Plata.
The place has more than 130 animal species between the introduced ones and the autochthonous ones, not counting the more than 200 species of birds that choose it as their habitat.
Even so, in some cases the space became unsafe for them and at the same time, also for motorists who circulate on Camino Centenario, Provincial Route 14, which crosses the park bordering the Ecological Reserve area.
"Welcome to the Pereyra Iraola Death Park"
, denounced the activist Fernando Pieroni through social networks.
Pieroni assures that there is inaction from the provincial sector and that the animals are killed on the side of the road on the Camino Centenario.
Along with the complaint, the images of dead animals are striking.
"It is a postcard that is lived daily," says Pieroni, who also says that last year a formal request was made from the park rangers for the authorities to articulate with the provincial highway sector, and provide speed bumps, indicative posters , warnings, indications of fauna crossing and also, the necessary lighting to be able to visualize them.
“People from the area get together at night in the reserve, and they throw the animals out, they don't respect their space.
They leave and end up being run over, ”explains the activist.
And he adds: "For several years
the Park has been suffering the abandonment
of the provincial authorities, it seems that they do not care that it is one of the largest lungs in the Province of Buenos Aires and a Biosphere Reserve."
Last year, at the beginning of the pandemic, animals began to appear again in the territory due to the low presence of people.
That is why the park rangers warned the authorities about this situation.
"A sector of the reserve was also added, where the police school works where detonations are heard every day at the firing range and this adds to the fact that the animals leave the territory scared," explains Pieroni.
Animals run over on the Centennial Park Road, which crosses the Pereyra Iraola Park.
, Rosana Donato, environmentalist, international Human Rights Defender and active member since 2010 of the Assembly of the Pereyra Iraola Biosphere Reserve, points out: "Currently, the Ministry of Agrarian Development and the Provincial Organization for Sustainable Development, OPDS, are the ones who must ensure their protection and conservation, but they do nothing or very little.
The problems of this mismanagement are poachers, intentional forest fires at any time of the year, open dumps, abandonment of stolen vehicles, abandonment of pets, cutting trees and theft of firewood and run over by wildlife in its main arteries such as Route 1 is the General Belgrano Road and the Centennial Park Road, where dead foxes, weasels, capybaras and lizards appear every day ".
And he continues: "UNESCO has formally made a request to expand the buffer zone of the reserve, to present an adequate management plan, and to form a Management Committee with the social actors of the Reserve, but they never called us. we are waiting for them to comply with the request. We fear that this mismanagement is part of a plan to scrap this green lung, where its great biodiversity is one of the most valuable in our province. "
Among the species run over are
foxes, wild cats, vizcachas and weasels.
Regarding this situation, the residents of the place adhere to the need to mark the space, since it also becomes a dangerous area for drivers.
The provincial government assures that they are working "on the safety of both visitors and those who pass through the park."
"We are working on what is the asphalt tape with Vialidad", indicates Germán Linzer, director of Technology Transfer of the Ministry of Agrarian Development of Buenos Aires.
“A proposal is being made to set up certain conditions so that drivers can travel as safely as possible.
That implies a joint work, where we warn of situations and Vialidad generates the posters.
Sometimes it happens that
some animals are trying to colonize new spaces,
and that is probably what has happened on these roads ", he details.
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