It took me quite a lot of time to edit this interview. I tried to put the most important information at the beginning of the video.
00:00 After the amendment to the Nature Protection Act, all employees of the environmental office in Liptovský Mikuláš resigned. The amendment ended in disaster. They asked the employees for the impossible. The employees risked being on the verge of poverty due to the resignations, and yet they resigned. This indicates that it is an extremely serious situation. The outgoing Minister of the Environment, László Sólymos, rated his work as absolutely great – we see that the opposite is true. (Pavel Zacharovský is speaking)
07:57 Erik Baláž and something about him. About activists of his type.
09:45 In the past, they were owners of companies that got rich from the calamity in the Tatras, today they are leading conservationists-activists. It is clear that the fake conservationists, the non-governmental sector, are connected with the timber business.
10:38 about developers in national parks and lobbying pressure. Ski lifts, chemicals, and right next to them, the highest level of nature protection.
11:28 teacher Erika Baláž, forester Vladimír Cisár, criticizes him. He illegally filmed movies about the beautiful forests created by the foresters he criticizes.
12:08 False nature protection causes enormous ecological damage. The protection of property was removed from the amendment to the law so that false nature conservationists could avoid prosecution and get rid of responsibility.
13:35 possible fines, sanctions for foresters if they violate the law.
15:58 how the famous forester Ján Slivinský was fined in TANAP because of the government’s field meeting
16:18 absolute scandal. The ministry has allocated an astronomical EUR 8 million for the protection of the defeated bear. The subsidy for forest support was only EUR 2 million. The German government supports foresters with up to EUR 800 million.
17:42 property protection failed
21:40 definition of a state of calamity. To what extent must the bark beetle multiply? (says Dušan Lukášik)
24:20 Fire hazard
25:18 Why were there no clearcuts in the past without pseudo-environmentalists and nature activists? About the good old days. More details about the amendment. Nature protection authorities can postpone permits for intervention against the bark beetle practically indefinitely. However, if no action is taken in time, the bark beetle will overpopulate and cause great damage.
32:06 definition of a calamity. Consequences of the Tichá Valley reservation. The entire Western Tatras were destroyed by a bark beetle calamity.
Amendments to the Nature and Landscape Protection Act and the Forest Act. Filing a criminal complaint against an unknown perpetrator for large-scale damage…
Guests: Ing. Pavel Zacharovský, Ing. Vladimír Cisár and Ing. Dušan Lukášik, CSc.
moderated by: David Hančinský