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A legal trick threatens Canary Islands herpetofauna
The regional government of the Canay Islands made a bill of law aimed to create a new regional catalogue of protected species. The main changes proposed for herpetofauna are to demote the category of protection of Gallotia intermedia from Endangered to Vulnerable, and also moving out of the regional catalogue Chalcides simonyi and Gallotia atlantica laurae. This proposal is illegal as regionals laws could be more restrictive than national laws, but regional catalogues could not move out from their category of protection species listed in the national catalogue. There is a platform against this proposal that´s been trying to stop this law.