Resumen de Right of Access to Environmental Information on Fauna Protection in the Integrated Transportation System in the Aburrá Valley, Colombia

Jorge Eduardo Vásquez Santamaría, Beatriz Elena Arcila, Gloria Lucía Arboleda González

• The Integrated Transportation System of the Aburrá Valley (SITVA, from its original name in Spanish) regularly receives reports of animal injuries, mutilations and deaths. The Legal Clinic (LC) at Universidad Católica Luis Amigó in Medellín set in motion a clinical exercise between March 2023 and April 2024, in which we posed to the authorities the following research questions: How is alleged ambiguity in the environmental institutions responsible for protecting fauna framed in Colombia’s legal system? and How do availability, up-to-datedness and access to environmental information affect the public’s perception of a situation for it to be considered an issue? We gathered data from six legal requests for information filed with the competent entities, to then analyze the availability, up-to-datedness and access to the environmental information on the protection of fauna.