Threat to herpetofauna of the Grodziec Slaski area, due to stated range, has been regularly indicated since 2005 to Silesian Voivode who carry out from legal validity of environmental protection resolution (article 93) tasks of the civil service in the range of environmental protection with help of the Provincial Nature Conservator. On the sequence of the issues took up during the correspondence answers concerning the substance has not been given up to now. Voivode answers contained as usual description of the administrative proceedings concerning investiton approval. For example, on the question in which way amphibians will be directed to the safe passages under flyovers without sooner entering on the clearway, II Silesian Vice-Voivode stated: “The range of available information does not give possibility of taking a stance on raising questions, and nature protection services do not have the knowledge that confirms possibility of occurrence of threats for keeping appropriate condition of herpetofauna species preservation in this Silesian Province area.” Then come the question about the range, scale, accuracy and sense of the performance of the environmental impact assesment.

Typical is attitude of Silesian Voivode and Nature Conservator who in June 2007 were informed about reservations to the quality of the protections along road, which should be sufficient barrier for migration of amphibians. Role of this persons was restricted to sending of the handed paper to the investor who in July announce service of the protections tightness. Only after newspapers intervention at the end of September an ostensible reperation has been made. Throughout 2007 year amphibians come to the road without bigger obstructions, then they were run over by cars in large numbers or they fell into sumps, where they also died – with Provincial Environmental Protection Service knowledge and approbation.



Citizen was late, so Nature Conservator do not have to know that amphibians migrate on distances longer than 100 m.


Investor owns documents which say that he acts according to administrative decision.


Animals died in large numbers during road building, while Katowice Dept. of the General Management of State Roads and Highways was informed about threat to herpetofauna – look below.


Protocol from the meeting in September 2006 – director Mr Sobula in paper of 5.01.2007. was economical with the truth – Mr Żurek (Katowice Dept. of the General Management of State Roads and Highways) participated in September 2007 on meeting with representatives of Workshop on All Beings Matter.


Technical condition of protections which should be sufficient barrier for migration of amphibians have not improved until January 2008 although declaration, moreover it had deteriorated.

Article 4.1. of legal validity of environmental protection: “Responsibility of civil service, legal entities and other administrative units and natural persons is to care for nature which is national heritage and treasure.”



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