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STANOWISKA - ZB nr 7(152)/2000, czerwiec 2000

PACT FOR WILD NATURE

Wild nature is the matrix of all life. Life in separation from nature leads to degeneration and all the dangerous consequences characteristic for civilizations subject to the hegemony of market and politics, the aim of which is progress and human welfare alone. Our species is an inseparable part of nature and no cultural or economical values can be achieved at the cost of diminishing the remnants of wild nature which are still preserved.

Organizations associated with the Pact for Wild Nature declare that their main goal is to protect wildlife in its natural and semi-natural forms.

Signatories of this pact are of the opinion that the remaining parts of Polish wild nature (precise meaning of the term "wild nature" depends on many factors and could be different in different areas) should be entirely preserved. Nature can not be subject to mercantile goals. Modern civilization has caused so much environmental destruction that now it should get down to repairing the damage that has been done.

Nature can not be subject to business - the policy of sacrificing certain regions for the benefit of other areas is short-sighted and leads to a catastrophe. Members of this coalition do not accept the "ecology" which treats ecological values as servile to the idea of upholding the current trends of maximization in the global and national policy, science and business.

People should be partners to nature, not its lords. No living creature can be the object of human exploitation, entertainment, imprisonment, or science experiments - with the exception of basic survival needs of the people.

Property law, although it requires respect, can not justify any forms of nature abuse. Nature is a common value, more important than any guarantee of the unlimited use of somebody's "own" land. A person can not be the "owner" of either a natural region or a species - he/she can "use" the web of life only to satisfy his/her basic needs - under the condition that it does not upset the harmony of life in general.

Members of this pact object to any kind of business which does not take into consideration the protection and recreation of nature. This applies to town and country planning, forestry as well as agriculture. Further fragmentation of nature, destruction of water resources and the policy heading for the limitation of the number of small family farms by replacing them with big farms are unacceptable.

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STANOWISKA - ZB nr 7(152)/2000, czerwiec 2000
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