Easter Island is known for its unique Moai monumental statues carved past times the Rapa Nui people, believed to convey arrived on the remote landmass inwards the southeastern Pacific Ocean inwards or too thence the twelfth century.
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| Moai of the Rapa Nui civilization are seen on the Ahu Tongariki site on Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast inwards the Pacific Ocean. From August 1, 2018 tourists won't live able to remain inwards Isla de Pascua for to a greater extent than than thirty days too the government volition position novel controls on novel residents [Credit: Gregory Boissy/AFP] |
However, it is those real tourists, amongst mainland migrants, who convey larn a threat to the island's well-being. Chile, which annexed the territory inwards 1888, has decided to act.
In 2007, Easter Island was designated a especial territory patch dorsum inwards March, congress voted to bound the position out of tourists too unusual or mainland residents allowed on the island, too the fourth dimension they're allowed to stay.
As of Wednesday, novel rules volition come upwards into consequence that bring down the fourth dimension tourists—Chileans non purpose of the Rapa Nui people too foreigners—can remain on the isle from xc to thirty days.
"Foreigners are already taking over the island," Mayor Pedro Edmunds told AFP.
At the terminal census inwards 2017, at that spot were 7,750 people living on Easter Island, nigh double the population of a few decades ago, earlier the isle was hitting past times a tourism blast too the existent estate evolution that accompanied it.
Edmunds says that position out is 3,000 "too many."
"They're damaging the local idiosyncrasy, the thousand-year civilization is changing too non for the good," he added, proverb that "customs from the continent" were infiltrating the isle too "that's non positive."
Crime too domestic violence figures are also rising.
It's non simply obnoxious people from the mainland causing problems, though—the increase inwards tourism is harming the environment.
All basic services are straining nether the pressure, non to the lowest degree waste matter management, Ana Maria Gutierrez, the local government's environmental adviser told AFP.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 decade agone the isle generated 1.4 metric tons (1.5 USA tons) of waste matter per yr per inhabitant, but that figure has nigh doubled to 2.5 tons today, with a population that recycles real little.
"Environmentally the isle is real fragile," said Gutierrez.
The novel laws, however, impose stricter rules on those who want to alive on the island, amongst them a requirement to live related to person from the Rapa Nui people: either a parent, partner or child.
Others who volition live allowed to remain are world servants, employees of organizations that render services to the government, too those who develop an independent economical activeness amongst their families.
On arrival, tourists must introduce their hotel reservation or an invitation from a resident.
The rules volition also constitute a yet-to-be-decided maximum capacity.
But Edmunds isn't happy, equally he feels the rules don't kicking the bucket far plenty to protect the island's culture, heritage too singularity.
"I don't concur with these rules, it's non plenty because it doesn't reverberate all the aspirations of the island," he said, admitting that similar "many other Rapa Nui" he favors a "total" ban on the arrival of novel residents.
However, he said the legislation was at to the lowest degree "a skillful start."
Rapa Nui are a Polynesian people closely related to those on Tahiti, whereas the bulk of Chileans convey European ancestry, with a minority of indigenous peoples.
Author: Paulina Abramovich | Source: AFP [July 30, 2018]
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