Un Domingo normal como cualquier otro, iban unas personas
caminando por la calle. De repente ven a un perro muy desnutrido, flaco y su
piel estaba maltratada. Se paran y el perro va lentamente hacia ellos. El perro
ya no podía más con su cuerpo, o lo que quedaba de él. Las personas iban caminando
cerca de un carro que daba sombra, sin embargo el perro se acuesta y se pone a
descansar en la sombra. Los hombres no podían seguir viendo a ese pobre perro tan
maltratado. Él estaba lleno moscas que se metían por los ojos y a la boca.
Tenía las patas peladas, sin pelos y se veía el puro hueso. Debía de pesar
alrededor de 45kg que es un peso normal para un perro, y pesaba unos 25kg.
Las personas que lo recogieron se lo llevaron cuidadosamente
a su casa, lo bañaron, lo limpiaron y curaron de las infecciones que tenía. El
perro se comportó muy bien en el proceso de su curación. Ni un solo gruñido ni
nada. Fue dócil y fiel. No es para nada agresivo porque las personas tenían un
gato y no le hacía nada. Los dos se comportaban muy bien.. El perro no tenía más
de 2 años por sus facciones notorias. Parece que ha vivido toda su vida atado y
sin comida por como lo encontraron. Por suerte, lo salvó la campana. Con todo
el esfuerzo de las personas se puede decir que no se tapa el sol con un solo
dedo.
Ahora el perro está a salvo en una asociación de la persona
que lo encontró. Las personas que lo cuidan han informado que se mantiene sano
y lentamente se está recuperando de su estado de deshidratación. Esta historia
no es única, pasa en muchos lugares y tenemos que tratar que no se repita mucho
y si encontramos a animales en malas condiciones hay que pedir ayuda e informar
a otras personas, porque más vale poco que nada. También si saben que una
persona está haciéndole algo injusto a un perro o a otro animal, hay que reportarlo.
No hay mal, que por bien no venga. Ya que el perro está bien, como el refrán
dice, ya tiene compañía de dos mi perro y yo.
The world is being
in a stage of lack of its natural resources, with much of what nations depend
for their healthy living, they are now at risk from a new threat: environmental crime.
Environmental crime
is defined as any act, or attempted act, committed against the environment that
violates defined laws. Emphasizing the
most common of environmental crimes are chemical waste, ozone decrease, illegal
caught of seafood, wood exploitation and other forest products, but the main
crimes are mining, fishing and deforestation.
According to a report made by the UNEP that follows
these cases reveals that this area of criminality has diversified to become the
world’s fourth largest crime sector, growing at 2 to 3 times the pace of the
global economy.
INTERPOL (International
Criminal Police Organization) and UNEP now estimate that natural resources
worth as much as 91 billion to 258 billion dollars that these criminals are
stealing.
Organizations such
as INTERPOL and the UNEP started to feelfully alarmed when they realized that this problem was increasing more and
more everytime, so they began to fight this crime in 1992.
These are the
solutions they purpose:
To reduce threats to security and peace, accept the information and share it
across the sectors for the peacekeeping mission, in order to inform holistic
responses towards securing peace, security and sustainable development.
The rule of law, the international community
must recognize and approve the environmental crimes as a serious threat to
peace and sustainable development, to prevent safe havens, improve legislation,
implement dissuasive penalties, substantial sanctions and punishments.
Leadership,
governments should establish central coordination and national plans to combat
the involvement of criminal organized groups in environmental crimes.
Financial support, declare to the international development community to recognize
crime as a serious threat to sustainable development and strengthen the share
of ODA (Official Development Assessment) to abolish and prevent environmental
crime. This should be led to capacity building and technological support to
relevant agencies.
Economic incentives and consumer awareness, to strengthen
economic incentives, relevant institutions and awareness. Identifying best
practices in behavioral change should be undertaken to reduce demand.
Global Background:
¿Why is this issue a conflict for the world?
Environmental crime
endangers not only wildlife populations it also effects the ecosystems levels
through massive deforestation, pollution from unregulated chemical use and
disposal, and destruction of livelihoods. Confirming
that it affects globally because nations depend from these natural resources
and these actions make abrupt changes in the ecosystem that cause different
reactions, such as water shortage, climate change, health diseases, loss of
animal life, and oxygen.
Responding to environmental crime
Different needs
must be recognized, and different
tools are required depending on the environmental crime.
In the lasts decades,
voluntary actions and awareness programs have been dominated by many efforts.
Approving over 99% of the billion dollars REDD (Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) programs and EU (European
Unions) FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade.) have largely
focused on voluntary agreements and NGO (Non Governmental Organizations)
support. Programs such as ICCWC (International Consortium on Combating Wildlife
Crime), INTERPOL or national enforcement and security sector reform have
received comparatively modest support in spite of major successes. Combining
the successes of programs such as REDD and ICCWC may lead to breakthroughs in
approaches to natural resources management and stemming the tide of ITW.
Ministers from
Russia and the group of seven leading economies agreed to step up their
cooperation against environmental crime in 1998.
