Doñana could leave the green list of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) after a report issued by a dozen experts from this organization that EL País has advanced this Friday, in which the main wetland in Europe only approves 17 of the 50 indicators evaluated.
In this sense, the environmental organization WWF fears that Doñana could "with almost complete probability" be expelled from the IUCN green list and they hold the Junta de Andalucía responsible for its inaction in the conservation of the park and for the implementation of the controversial irrigation law criticized by scientists and national and international organizations.
Thus, the coordinator of the WWF Doñana Office, Juanjo Carmona, has indicated that the IUCN has studied 50 indicators and the result reveals "the progressive deterioration of Doñana", a reality that "with almost total probability" will mean "the expulsion of Doñana from its green list due to the decline in biodiversity and the problems of the natural space, more important no longer in Huelva or Andalusia, but probably in Europe."
In the evaluation to which the natural space has been subjected, only 17 of those 50 indicators have been approved, according to what the newspaper El País has advanced this Friday. Of the four blocks that make it up: good governance, design and planning of the park, effective administration and successful conservation, Doñana only approves the second and with barely a 5.
The current situation of the park, in Carmona's opinion, cannot be attributed "exclusively" to the drought, but is due to "a progressive deterioration" that is based on the "inaction" of the Junta de Andalucía in recent years and This contrasts with the initiatives that, in recent times, the Government of Spain has launched, through the Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MITECO), which has at least announced a framework plan with measures that are already beginning to be implemented.
Some measures that "are not the only ones" that Doñana needs but that within the powers of the State they consider to be "a minimum of action to start trying to reverse the situation."
Faced with this, the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, and his Minister for the Environment, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, "could be remembered for being the ones who brought Doñana out of international recognition for the first time in its history", something that "it did not even happen during the Aznalcóllar catastrophe".
"And they could be due to their inaction", something that "we have been denouncing for years and that the IUCN itself has also been able to verify", he stressed.
In his opinion, "the only initiative" that they have launched has been "to grant amnesty to illegal irrigators, to those who are stealing water from the aquifer and are creating a very serious problem for Doñana and the legal irrigators in the area", through of the bill for the improvement of irrigation in the North Crown.
As a consequence of this initiative, "the image of Doñana at the international level begins to break, but the problem is not that it breaks, but rather that it occurs due to this progressive deterioration, because when a rigorous study is carried out from the point of view scientific Doñana declines, its biodiversity is in decline and its problems come to light".
And in view of this, "the Andalusian government wastes more time trying to justify the unjustifiable than implementing what many of its technicians in the national park have demanded of it" and this "because they are exclusively focused on trying to approve the anti-Doña law."
He has stressed that "the main problem that Doñana has is not only the drought, it is a decline due to the inaction and lack of action of the Andalusian government for Doñana."
