Out of 33 Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promises listed by the LPO, only five are considered to have been kept, all the rest being considered mixed or negative.
The Bird Protection League (LPO) drew, Thursday, October 14, a grim record of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term in terms of nature protection. When the president and a renewed National Assembly come to power, “we could hope that the environmental issue would be upgraded”, declared its president Allain Bougrain-Dubourg during a meeting with the press. “It didn’t happen”, he continued, evoking “the frustration and the mess” linked to this five-year period, while biodiversity continues to erode.
The LPO has taken up campaign promises from the President of the Republic, on the fight against the artificialization of soils, a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) compatible with ecological issues, to reduce pollution of agricultural origin, put an end to the hunting of endangered bird species or even complete the network of protected natural areas. Of the 33 promises listed by the LPO, only five are considered to have been kept, all the rest being considered mixed or negative.
“In France, rarely has a Head of State given so many gifts and granted privileges to the hunting world and this is the first time that a President of the Republic in office has waited for the end of his mandate to receive major associations for the protection of nature “, criticizes the LPO in a press release. The NGO also regrets that the proposals made during the great debate and by the Citizen’s Climate Convention in the wake of the “yellow vests” crisis were not listened to. The LPO plans, with other associations, to raise the stakes of nature protection in early 2022 during the next presidential campaign.