Western Ghats Are Not At All Protected
It's become more of a fashion for our politicians to talk about protecting our environment these days, just a couple of days ago it was the CM, then the PWD minister. Now it is the turn of our Minister for forests to appeal to the Goan public to respond adequately to the environmental crisis. Almost everyone knows the importance of the Western Ghats to Goa and Goans, the bio-botanical world is amazed at the richness of the bio-diversity that's prevalent in our backyard and the world prays for the protection and preservation of this huge reservoir of wealth that nature in it's generosity has bestowed on us. The Minister for forest at the photographic exhibition of the Western Ghats said that the Goa government has declared the entire Western Ghats corridor as protected area on account of the rich bio-diversity in the region. Declaring and enforcing are entirely two different entities as far as the Goa government is concerned, it declares a huge load of things but fails to enforce them, making them as ineffective as their government itself. A good government will always follow it's declarations by the obvious action of enforcing those declarations only than can it have the desired results. At least our Minister for forests with his statement has admitted and accepted the existence of environmental crises in Goa, it's a step in the right direction, in order to rectify a fault we have to first admit to it, that is what he has done, now after knowing fully well about the crises, what has he done about it or what's he going to do about it ? Appealing to the people he has generated awareness, not that people did not know about it, but as a Minister for forest what action does he plan against the originators of these crises ? Minister for forests you opened your big mouth now act. For a long time our anti mining activists have been crying foul over the destruction of our Western Ghats, there is enough proof to establish a systematic destruction of the bio-diversity and our environment by the mining fraternity. The nexus between the miners, police and our politicians babus is an open secret and it is also recorded in the Goa Assembly that a vast majority of our politicians are involved in illegal mining, so I pray to the Minister for forests to educate his comrades to respond adequately to the environmental crisis before asking the public. The Western Ghats are as vulnerable to the mining fraternity as our pristine beaches are to the drug lords and pimps. The statement by our Minister for forests that the Western Ghats is a protected corridor is as acrimonious and erroneous as that of our Home Minister's statement that there are no drugs in Goa. Our politicians do seem to be victims of the foot in the mouth syndrome. Freddy Agnelo Fernandes -------------------------------------------------------- The content of this electronic communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and any others who are specifically authorized to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or otherwise placing reliance on the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful in certain legal jurisdictions. If you have received this communication in error please notify the sender immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. -------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
