Archeologists and environmentalists expressed escaped to a shock plan for a peru of the culture of the service to cut near half of the protection of the archaeological park around Iconic nazca linesExcluding an area of nearly magnitude urban slim in the country’s capital city.
UNESCO world inheritance of attracting thousands of tourists see a huge hummingbird, monkey and whales figures in the desert in Peru’s second maximum tourist attraction after Machu Picchu. Last year, archaeologists in ai Discovered a hundred new geoglyphs Deepers back more than 2,000 years, preding in famous lines in the sand.
“They’re trying to rub about the story,” said Ana Maria Cogorno Mendoza, President Mary Reiche International Association, a not gain created by the protection of Nazca lines. “The area that is separated exactly, where some of the most ancient ritual took, according to the research.” Mary Reiche was a German born mathemaine who pioneered research in Nazca lines in the 20th century.
Critics of the move to say, not weak decades of environmental protection and open Nazca archaeological support to Informal and illegal miningJust to get international Gold Prices Peak.
Peru of Culture Ministry, who wanted to reduce Nazca Reserve from about 5,600 sq km to roughly 3,200 sq km, said to the decision of the effect of a 20-year studio and not affect the world inheritance and does not affect the zone in the world.
“It has not enough study to say that the culture and archeological value,” said Cesar Ippra, an environmental lawyer who has a closerquille to the plan-doing in the case.
“This region, which belongs to the ancestors, requires true protection and not only political.”
Luis Babylon Castillo, former culture officials and archeologist who studied in geoglyphs said at the protected area was already “infested with illegal metals and mineral processing plants.”
Sidney Novoa, the Technology Director at NGO Conservation, who mapped the site, said to the area now excluded from a protected arch of the akin of the story in the controversy in any 300, scored in aferfo in the process of their operations in aferfo.
Ipenza said to register allowed illegal metals to continue with the clutch and without the public inspection, adding the power of the benefits of the Faset in the environmental protection.
Move “explains [the reserve] To a very serious fear and cumulative damage “, said Mariano Castro, former environment Minister.” Minister of culture does not consider the expansion impact of the extracting mining activities and accumulatively impact of sensitive archaeological and cumulatively impact on the sensitive archaeological and cumulatively impact on sensitive activities in Nazca existing in zones in Nazca existing activities in Nazca
“This update responds to the work is more accurately reflect the relationship between geoglyphs and physical features recorded in the area, running protection and conservation,” Fabricio Valencia, the Culture Minister, the National Radio in Saturday.