Manuel Jaramillo, a Wildlife specialist, explained to us why agriculture should be a bit more concerned about the project.

-Why should the agricultural sector be interested in the reform of the Glacier Law that the government sent to Congress? That was the question that we from Bichos de Campo asked Manuel Jaramillo, executive director of the Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina. This NGO was part of a group of specialists that alerted about the executive branch's project that modifies Law 26.639 on minimum environmental protection budgets for glaciers and periglacial environments. This happened on Thursday in a joint meeting of the Senate committees on Environment and Sustainable Development and on Mining, Energy, and Fuels. There, in a swift procedure that took only two days, a favorable report on the official initiative was achieved. Jaramillo explained: "The current Glacier Law is a law of minimum budgets, whose objective is to establish the standard on which glaciers and the glacial environment must be conserved throughout the country. The proposed modification suggests distorting that concept of ...