The Greens in the Munich district are demanding that the next federal government invest significantly more money in promoting species protection projects. “The people in the Munich district want a diverse natural landscape with high biodiversity and great biodiversity,” says the party leader in the district council, Christoph Nadler. “The neglect of the past few years on the subject of species protection would have to be reversed; this would require money, according to Nadler:” The next federal government must deliver. “
The Greens make this clear with an example. For example, the district of Munich has applied for funding of a little more than 2.3 million euros from the federal government for the species protection project “Nature Diversity Landkreis München”; all requirements for eligibility were met when the application was submitted, according to Nadler. “However, the federal government has not made enough funds available for funding,” criticized the parliamentary group chairman, saying that this was shown by a request from the Green parliamentary group. “The district of Munich has been waiting for corresponding federal subsidies since 2018.” In addition, urgently needed funds are also not available for other projects that have been classified as positive and eligible for funding by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, according to Nadler’s parliamentary group colleague Oliver Seth. “And that, even though concrete sums for specific projects have also been budgeted for us in the Munich district,” says Seth. The protection of nature and species urgently needs a much larger focus, demands Nadler, which is why he calls for the federal program “Biological Diversity” to be increased to 50 million euros annually.