With the support of the Ecuadorian Ministry of Justice, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Galapagos has officially launched an environmental law manual titled: Manual on the Application of Criminal Environmental law as a Tool for the Protection of the Natural Areas in the Galapagos. Authorities from all sectors received a copy of this historic document at a presentation on May 13, 2011.
The manual analyzes the importance of the natural areas of the Galapagos, which benefit from international recognition and the protection of Ecuadorian authorities.
Its protection goes back to 1936, when the Galapagos were named the first National Park in Ecuador. Then in 1978, the Galapagos became the world?s first UNESCO Natural Heritage Site and 20 years later, the first Marine Reserve in Ecuador. Since 2005, the Galapagos have become the first Maritime Sensitive Zone, designated in Ecuador by the International Maritime Organization.
The manual also explains the Galapagos special regime, which is drafted in the Constitution and developed in a Special Law (LOREG, 1998). By establishing penal sanctions to environmental infractions occurring in the Marine Reserve and the National Park, this law was the first in the country to acknowledge the effective role of criminal law in protecting the natural heritage of the Galapagos Islands. This law penalizes industrial fisheries taking place within the Marine Reserve, as well as fisheries of protected species, such as sharks.
At the book launch, Sea Shepherd presented the book not only as a useful manual for judicial operators, but also as the first step towards a much needed specialized judicial system, one that meets the challenges of ruling and enforcing environmental law in a National Park and a Marine Reserve that are also UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Sea Shepherd will continue to advocate for a judicial system that embraces and enforces the principles of the UN World Charter for Nature and the progressive green approach of the new Ecuadorian Constitution. A judicial system symbolized by a blindfolded Lady Justice, the Roman goddess of justice, holding a human scale and Neptune?s trident, and ruling with the power of reason and environmental justice. All in the name of the invisible and the defenseless: the sharks that inhabited this natural heritage site long before humans did.
(L to R): Capt. Alex Cornelissen, Col. Geovanny Leiva, Dr. Hugo Echeverria, Capt. Roc?o Vinueza, Capt. Jos? Luis Villac?s,
Lt. Cristina Proa?o
Source: http://www.nature-news-network.org/sea-shepherd-galapagos-launches-environmental-law-manual.html
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