In the press - COP15 biodiversity: "Do we need to go on a weekend by plane to Lisbon every six months?"

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On the front page of the French press, the opening, today, in Montreal, Canada, of the COP15 on biodiversity.

Seventy percent of wildlife wiped off the map in fifty years, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.

This state of affairs alarms

, which considers the objective displayed by this COP15 "ambitious but not unattainable": to obtain the protection of 30% of the land and seas - places which "must be left to themselves, by limiting human intervention", hence the call to "rewild nature", to let nature take back its rights.

"Not everything must disappear":

regrets that we hear less about this COP15 than "the risk of power cuts this winter or the World Cup in Qatar".

Asked by the newspaper, the head of the Natural History Museum, Bruno David, evokes a crisis "100 to 1,000 times faster than those of the past", but believes that there are, despite everything, solutions to stop the loss of biodiversity – by putting the environment at the heart of political and economic decisions, but also at the individual level, in particular among the most privileged.

"Do we really need yet another pair of jeans? To fly to Lisbon for the weekend by plane every six months? It's time to question the relevance of some of our actions and to react", asks he.

, for its part, notes that the heads of state, who were vying for the first place of environmental defenders at the COP27 on the climate, "did not go out of their way to be present in Montreal".

The newspaper, which devotes a whole file to marine biodiversity, regrets that Europe still does not prohibit fishing in protected areas, and that France "is careful not to intervene in industrial fishing".

And the newspaper to quote Baudelaire, who said that "the sea is the mirror where we contemplate our soul": "It's not very pretty to see".

In the press, also, the decision of Sweden to hand over to Turkey a national accused of belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an organization classified as "terrorist" by Ankara.

According to

, which quotes several Turkish media, the expulsion of Mahmut Tat took place four days ago and would be linked to the ongoing negotiations between Stockholm and Ankara, which conditions the lifting of his veto on the entry of Sweden in NATO to better political and judicial collaboration.

The weekly recalls that Sweden is the refuge of many asylum seekers, coming from Turkey in particular, and that until then, the country refused to deliver prisoners to Ankara for political reasons.

Apart from its repercussions on Turkish-Swedish relations,

notes that the war in Ukraine has enabled Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "to return to favor with the Europeans and NATO who have constantly, in recent years, castigated his abrasive foreign policy and his regional adventurism" , especially in Syria.

A word, too, from the report of the Observatory of Inequalities, published yesterday.

According to this document, those under 18 are increasingly precarious in France.

highlights this alarming figure: in France, a third of the poor are children.

A figure that is all the more worrying since the poverty rate of the entire French population has been almost stable for twenty years, while that of minors is deteriorating.

For the Observatory of inequalities, this poverty of minors "is the consequence of the importance of the poverty of single-parent families, mainly single women with children, who represent a quarter of the very poor, 25%, against 10% Population".

Finally, back to yesterday's qualifications of Morocco and Portugal for the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

After its historic victory against Spain, on penalties, "the beautiful story of Morocco continues, turning into a fairy tale", marvels the Moroccan site

.

The feat of the Atlas Lions excites the Arab press.

, the Lebanese daily, even evokes "Arab pride", Morocco being the first Arab country to qualify for this height of competition.

In France,

salutes the exploit of the "joyful jewels" of Morocco, who will face Portugal on Saturday at 4 p.m. Paris time.

A lot of enthusiasm, a lot of joy, also, obviously, on the Portuguese side, who washed out the Swiss, 6 goals to 1. "Assim, siiiiiiiim!": "Like that, ouiiiiii!", exults

, who salutes the beautiful "hat trick" of Gonçalo Ramos, author of a magnificent hat-trick.

Gonçalo Ramos, "O demolidor", "The golden wrecker", headlines

, who explains that if Cristiano Ronaldo remained on the bench for almost the entire match, it was because it was "a strategic option " from coach Fernando Santos.

Is Cristiano Ronaldo finished?

The question agitates Portugal, the football planet, and even beyond, since even the very austere

pondered the question.

His diagnosis is scathing to say the least: "Cristiano Ronaldo has said many times that he is not done with top-level football. But the reality that emerges from this World Cup is that football top level may be done with him".

The most prudent thing is perhaps to wait until Saturday, before writing your (possible) epitaph...

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