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Originally posted by captaintyinknots
This type of topagraphical manipulation *SHOULD* have been next to impossible back then.
The head of the squatter settlement, Jesus Arias, denies his community has hurt the area. "It isn't archeological to me. There was no cemetery there, and there are no lines from Nazca culture either."
Arias said the squatters are the grown children of people from the nearby town of San Pablo who want their own homes. "Our population keeps growing," he said. "These are poor people who don't have the money to buy land or a house."
Arias said the culture ministry should do a better job marking the boundaries of protected areas.
Originally posted by jeantherapy
reply to post by captaintyinknots
If there is so much land available for food production why are they having to use this space?
The story really never clarifies if that claim is true or not. If it's true, then the title of that story and this thread is false. It's unclear to me if the Nazca lines are actually threatened or not.
Originally posted by hounddoghowlie
this qoute from their leader.
The head of the squatter settlement, Jesus Arias, denies his community has hurt the area. "It isn't archeological to me. There was no cemetery there, and there are no lines from Nazca culture either.
Arias said the culture ministry should do a better job marking the boundaries of protected areas.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
The story really never clarifies if that claim is true or not. If it's true, then the title of that story and this thread is false. It's unclear to me if the Nazca lines are actually threatened or not.
Originally posted by hounddoghowlie
this qoute from their leader.
The head of the squatter settlement, Jesus Arias, denies his community has hurt the area. "It isn't archeological to me. There was no cemetery there, and there are no lines from Nazca culture either.
My main takeaway from this story is that Peru has a serious problem with their law. They give squatters rights of litigation after squatting for only one day? That's a ridiculously short time and I can't think of any sane reason why anybody would consider such a short time reasonable.
The other takeaway is perhaps Peru does need to mark the protected area more clearly as the OP story suggests:
Arias said the culture ministry should do a better job marking the boundaries of protected areas.
The squatters have destroyed a Nazca-era cemetery and the 50 shacks they have built border Nazca figures, said Blanca Alva, a director at Peru's culture ministry.
Originally posted by jeantherapy
reply to post by DerepentLEstranger
don't throw me in with advocating destroying the Amazon, please. the Nazca lines area is apparently barren, thus the world's clean breathing air supply is not being jeopardized by "squatters" aka poor people that realize that it's insane to have to pay money to live when many men are capable of building meager yet suitable housing if only they had a place to do it. Kinda sucks that basically all the land on Earth has already had "dibs" called on it.
Originally posted by DerepentLEstranger
sounds like the same mentality that justifies killing off entire tribes in the amazon
because the poor loggers are trying to make a living