‘Malta’s Environment Should Be Included In Constitution,’ BirdLife President Urges
BirdLife president Darryl Grima has explained why a group of NGOs in Malta have suggested including the environment within the country’s constitution.
Amidst the ongoing electoral campaign, a cohort of environmental activist groups formulated a series of proposals related to the environment, directed towards politicians currently making their pledges.
“The environment isn’t ours – what our role supposedly is within it is to make sure that we are taking care of it, to ensure future generations get to enjoy its’ benefits too,” Grima said during an interview on TVM’s Ta’ Filgħodu.
“As a group of organisations, we joined forces in order for us to promote these proposals which at the end of the day, are for everyone’s benefit, not just the environment,” Grima said.
“We believe that the environment should be in Malta’s constitution – therefore the constitution of Malta will be able to protect the habitats or biodiversity which appear to be under threat,” he said.
Lovin Malta also reached out to Grima to hear more about this proposal, and why he thinks that this should be implemented in Malta soon.
“It means that any individual or eNGO will have the ability to take the government or even private entities up to court if they think that there is any form of decision, project, or action, that can lead to environmental destruction,” he said.
“We are guardians of the environment, and thus we should be obliged to care for it for future generations to come. And the environmental rights of future generations need to be safeguarded constitutionally not as we have at the moment, but by actual means of legal recourse,” he explained.
In this way, anyone or anything that poses any harm to the environment can be susceptible to harsher penalties.
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