Will the government sell the lands of the Hungarian national parks?

In order to provide firewood for the winter, the government is planning to sell the protected lands of the national parks. Hungary is preparing for severe winter gas shortages and is on the lookout for alternative solutions. 

National park forests in danger

The government has officially decided that it will take the radical step of cutting down trees to ensure an adequate supply of firewood for the upcoming winter. Viktor Orbán said in his radio interview last Friday that the government obliged the forest farms to prepare plans to increase firewood production. – reports Portfolio. In addition, Gergely Gulyás also spoke about the forest farms on Saturday and their aim to increase timber harvest. “State farms provide 55 percent of the total supply. This quantity will not only cover the necessary amount for social programmes but will also provide wood for those who plan to purchase it.” – said the minister. The government dramatically increases the supply of wood that can be cut. For example, it also lifted the ban on clearcutting in natural state forests while taking into consideration the importance of landscape protection.

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Greenpeace expert: it is irresponsible to subordinate the preservation of species to economic interests

“At first, we didn’t want to believe it, we thought it might be just a misunderstanding when we heard the news that they wanted to sell the lands of the national parks as well” – said Katalin Rodics, research biologist at Greenpeace Hungary. As Népszava reports, she and his colleagues were utterly shocked by the fact that the idea came from the Minister of Agriculture. However, they hope that the ministry’s proposal will not go through. For instance, it is possible to graze only under strict regulations on the protected grasslands that belong to the national parks. She believes it is irresponsible to subordinate the preservation of species to economic interests.

Conservationists want to protect national parks

According to Katalin Rodics, Hungary should do its utmost to protect its national parks. These lands make up only 5 percent of the country’s territory and only 10 percent of its total protected areas. Moreover, the EU currently reserves a large sum of money for the protection of biological diversity. The biologist asserts that the government should also consider this factor. However, she believes that instead of preserving the nature, Hungary is systematically destroying it.

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Source: portfolio.hu, népszava.hu

6 Comments

  1. I’m sure our Politicians will maximize Hungarian Families’ value here, and find a suitable buyer very quickly

  2. This is like a game of Wac-A-Mole. Yesterday I complained that the headline of an article that was originally “Hungarians will vote about leaving the EU soon?”. I pointed out that word order is important in English because the meaning can change. This resulted in the headline being changed to “Will Hungarians vote about leaving the EU soon?” thus turning a statement into a question. Yet here we are again, the wrong word order in the headline making it a statement not a question. “Government will sell the lands of the Hungarian national parks?” FOR GOD’S SAKE TO POSE A QUESTION THE “WILL” HAS TO COME FIRST, BEFORE “Government”. It should be “Will Government sell the lands of the Hungarian national parks?” Actually, in normal English, not this weird shit that the DNH writes, it would be written as ‘Will Government sell Hungarian national park land?”. NOTE in this context ‘land’ is an uncountable noun and so no “s” is required. I appreciate that one is tricky for Hungarians but here is an example: we own lots of land in the lands of our fathers. The noun “land” is an uncountable noun here but the “lands” is used when referring to more than country. Anyway, teach our journos about how to pose a question in the headline because that particular mistake about “will” is very tedious.

  3. Look at belgium .. all nature is gone. Now they get hit very hard by hot summer, real dry beton desert. No native food. No drinkable water. Go on that road and beautiful hungary is soldbout and raped by men in suits. STOP , think. The forest keep hungary sustainable in these times.

  4. I do just LOVE this Rule by Decree business. No debate, no questions asked, no scrutiny – just blunt ACTION!

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