Alarm level red for Tyrol: Glacier threatens to disappear in 40 years!

Alarm level red for Tyrol: Glacier threatens to disappear in 40 years!

Innsbruck, Österreich - The demands for comprehensive glacier protection in Tyrol are loud, especially after the failed project for the glacier marriage of the Pitztal and Ötztal ski areas. Green club chairman Gebi Mair is dissatisfied with the so far progress of the state government and emphasizes that the glaciers are still not adequately protected. "We are concerned that the glaciers are at risk from further development projects," said Mair at a media appointment in Innsbruck. A clear claim to the state government is: The glacier protection urgently needs to be anchored in the spatial planning program, so that no new ski area projects can be realized, as reported.

The Greens plan to stay active until the election in August and to finally hook off the "development fantasies". Mair emphasizes that glacier protection could be implemented legally quickly by deleting a certain appendix in a regulation. The current situation of the glaciers is particularly worrying: According to reports, the decline is alarming, with an average loss of 24.1 meters in the past measurement period. In order to draw attention to this critical development, the Greens have laid out 50 meters of white fleece on the Landhausplatz in Innsbruck before the press conference in order to make the record melt of the glaciers visible, as well as meinbezirk.at explained.

urgent need for action recognized

The Member of the National Council and tourism spokeswoman Barbara Neßler warns that Tyrol could no longer have glaciers in 40 years, which would not only affect nature but also tourism. Your statement is a clear warning that it is time to protect the glaciers and to reduce the applicable limit values ​​for air pollution in Tyrol. It remains to be seen whether the state government is reacting to the urgent appeals or whether the glaciers continue to disappear in the current sinking.