Several community members of Olonprovince of st. Helen, reject the works of a real estate project on May 7, 2024. The people request that the lands that include the Oloncito matprotected area of Ecuador.
In Oloncito matan area of mangroves and carob trees that protect people from flooding in the winter season, multiple works on a company project have been underway for days. Vinazin S.A..
According to the website of the Superintendence of Companiesthe shareholders of this company are Angela Lavinia Valbonesi Acostawife of the president Daniel Noboay Daniel Patricio Correia Peñaherrera
These works are carried out in 261 meters of the Oloncito matdeclared by the Ministry of Environment as a protected area in 2001. The fauna and flora of the place were not being respected, violating the rights of nature, enshrined in the Constitution.
In the project of Vinazin S.A. It consists of a set of four multi-story buildings and 24 housing units with social areas, green areas, parking, access roads, access to the beach and a boardwalk towards the body of water.
Protected area
Environmental organizations indicate that this work could not be developed because not only would the protected area not be respected, but there is an ordinance that prohibits constructions greater than three stories in the place.
However, according to the portal First fruitsthe project has all the environmental permits issued by the Ministry of Environment on December 5, 2023, thirteen days after the president takes office Daniel Noboa.
A new controversy and the usual stony silence of @Ambiente_Ec
Since the time of Lucius we have not seen such a lost ministry; the complaint for the felling of the project #EchoOlon It’s another example
Ignorance and improvisation that all the protected areas of the #Ecuador?🧵 pic.twitter.com/6dYnGorLVP— BitacoraAmbiental (@BitacoraEc) May 7, 2024
Teleamazon reports that, in an interview John Reyespresident of the commune of Olon, pointed out that they have requested on several occasions that the project be socialized, but this has not been done. Likewise, he said that this Tuesday they will present a protection action to prevent further cutting down of carob trees.
«We as a community are not opposed to the project, but we have asked for socialization. We are not asking for anything out of the ordinary. “I ask the President to assist us and clarify the misunderstandings.”
Likewise, he confirmed that the community members will remain in the place, where the presence of police was also recorded.
On the other hand, the assemblywoman Jhajaira Urrestafrom Citizen revolutionalso requested information from Ministry of the Environment about reports of the felling of a protected mangrove forest in Olon. “It is the duty of the State to protect all native species of terrestrial, marine and aquatic wildlife,” he added.
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