(MENAFN- Costa Rica News) The fight to preserve the wildlife of diverse species in Costa Rica, is a worldwide example, due to the admirable effort that every Tico member of organizations, who even present bills, maintains.
With the above, I want to add the constant and special struggle to protect the species of our oceans, whose merit goes to all those men and women experts on the subject, focused on the love and value to the country considered to have an incredible biodiversity.
The protection of sharks is an issue that has been talked about in Costa Rica since 2012, the year in which for the first time reforms to the Wildlife Conservation Law were presented to the Legislative Assembly.
We recently spoke with Randall Arauz , a marine biologist with a Ph.D. in Marine Sciences, who has been working on marine conservation issues since the 1990s and is a member of Marine Watch International.
Arauz told us chronologically and in detail about what happened with the bill in the Costa Rican Plenary.
In his opinion, sharks have always been wildlife, they have always been protected by the Wildlife Conservation Law , – let us remember that this Law, from articles 71 to 80, has a whole chapter that says,“endangered species such as those protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora known as (CITES), They cannot be traded, it also says that the SINAC is in charge of the International Conservation Conventions for sharks, it is the governing body, and the Conservation Law prohibits the trade of endangered species that are protected by CITES”.
From 2017 to the present Randall Arauz said that, in May 2017, the former president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, -under pressure from the fishing sector- created an Executive Decree,“saying that sharks are not wildlife and that then, as they are commercial species, they could continue fishing regardless of what the Wildlife Conservation Law says” he said.
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