Peru government abandoned A plan that reduced the size of a protected area throughout the country from the ancient Nazca linesAfter criticism, the change made them vulnerable to the impact of informal mining operations.
The Ministry of Culture in Peru said on Sunday that it was re -influencing the protected area that covers 5600 square kilometers (2200 square miles), in late May, it was declined to 3,200 square kilometers. At that time, the government said that the decision was based on studies that were accurately demarcated with a “real heritage value”.
The remote Nazca region, about 400 km (250 miles) south of Lima, contains hundreds of artifacts before the Spaniards and the plateau, which is famous for the Nazca lines, where more than 800 giant desert was created from animals, plants and geometric shapes more than 1500 years ago. UNESCO announced the World Heritage website in 1994.
The Ministry of Culture statement said that a technical committee of government representatives, archaeologists, academics and members of international organizations, including UNESCO, will work together to build a consensus on a future proposal for division and use of lands in the region.
Critics of the proposed change said it will weaken decades of environmental protection and open the archaeological reserves of Nazza Unofficial and illegal miningAs in international gold prices.
According to figures from the Ministry of Energy and Mines in Peru, 362 small gold miners work in the Nazca area as part of a program to organize their situation. The authorities have previously performed illegal mining operations in the region.
Louis Jamy Castillo, former Minister of Culture and Archeology who studied the geliglif, said the protected area “is already with mining plants and illegal mineral treatment.”
