Protests against layoffs and money cuts in national parks are increasingly heard. After the director of the Slovak Caves Administration, Ján Zuskin, and the former director of the Slovak Karst National Park, Milan Olekšák, told Minister Tomáš Tarab last week that they would not be fired, a protest came directly in the Tatras.
On Wednesday, a meeting organized by the association My sme les was held in front of the Tatranská National Park Administration in Tatranská Lomnica.
Not to poachers, not to political nominees, not to layoffs
The event called Living chain of solidarity with Slovak nature, nature protection institutions and their employees demanded an end to the dismissal of experts in nature protection and the employment of non-experts, political nominees and poachers.
The word poacher in protests is a reference to the new director of the Tatra National Park. Director of TANAP Peter Olexa, who was installed by Taraba,
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