“I would rather go to jail than pay for a nature passport.” This is a statement that many Icelanders have put their name to, and the number of names on the list is steadily rising.
The minister of industry and commerce, Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, began to promote her nature passport legislation to the parliament earlier this week. If the bill becomes a law both Icelanders and visitors from abroad will have to purchase a special nature passport if they want to travel into the central highlands or visit Iceland’s national parks.
Read more: Proposed nature passport is costly and stupid
Ragnheiður’s proposal has been badly received. Members of the Icelandic Travel Industry Association have condemned the plan and former ministers, now parliamentarians and members of the opposition, Steingrímur J. Sigfússon and Össur Skarphéðinsson stated, when the idea was first mooted, that they would indeed rather go to jail than pay for being in Iceland’s wilderness. Now many more are joining their ranks.
“I would rather go to jail than pay for a nature passport.” This is a statement that many Icelanders have put their name to, and the number of names on the list is steadily rising.
The minister of industry and commerce, Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, began to promote her nature passport legislation to the parliament earlier this week. If the bill becomes a law both Icelanders and visitors from abroad will have to purchase a special nature passport if they want to travel into the central highlands or visit Iceland’s national parks.
Read more: Proposed nature passport is costly and stupid
Ragnheiður’s proposal has been badly received. Members of the Icelandic Travel Industry Association have condemned the plan and former ministers, now parliamentarians and members of the opposition, Steingrímur J. Sigfússon and Össur Skarphéðinsson stated, when the idea was first mooted, that they would indeed rather go to jail than pay for being in Iceland’s wilderness. Now many more are joining their ranks.
