Diario El Progreso

Friday edition of the day on September 19 of 2008

Ciudad Bolivar, Bolivar State, Venezuela

He warned Alejandro Lanz, director of CIEV
"Miners continue to destroy illegal Upper Caura"

* More than 160 hydraulic equipment are also devastate the Canaima National Park

(Press CIEV) Miners are illegal week by accessing the high Caura River Basin Paragua Ori across the river, where there are no controls over this path is not a secret to anyone.
This was noted by the director of the Center for Ecological Research of Venezuela (CIEV), Alejandro Lanz, who questioned that, while the TO5 has control in the Caura half, gold workers tease the Armed Forces, entering the river behind Yuruaní The Caura-of-tributary, where more than 300 illegal miners with impunity devastate the forest reserve, under the watchful eye of indolent regional and national authorities.
"A volume of miners is impossible to pass unnoticed, even by La Paragua, where there are military checkpoints in the area of fuel, river traffic on the river, food, fuel drums (...) is a need for new TO5 authorities verify the staff of all ranks in military posts Butterfly and La Paragua, as hundreds of people, drums of gas oil, gasoline, food, hydraulic motors, spare parts, large and large hoses, are circumventing the controls military at this point, "said the ecologist.
However, the High Caura, is not currently the only source of environmental depredation in the entity, Lanz warned that within the Canaima National Park, more than 100 hydraulic motors are undermining sectors of the left bank of River Caroní belonging to the Park-off the old mines of San Salvador de Paul, where sectors have been baptized as mines and El Mono The Monito. "This action is a grave precedent for Canaima that, beyond its declaration as a Natural Monument of Humanity, houses an invaluable wealth biological and anthropological for Venezuela and the world," he warned.
Also, the holder of CIEV noted that despite the excellent control that leads the TO5 in the town of El Manteca, which has managed to reduce almost entirely illegal mining, "air traffic fuel from the airport of El Pao Fortuna has kept active mine The pantaletas (...) so that the authorities must coordinate efforts among the various municipalities of the entity to generate efficient and effective controls for the sake of safeguarding the natural resources of the nation, "he said.
In this regard, stressed that requires developing a work plan together, where civil society, universities, NGOs, regional and local executive and Armed Forces; meet to outline concrete actions to ensure the effectiveness of controls for the sake of not be flouted.
"An example of the lack of coordination between different bodies of state security, is the arrival 2 months ago, roughly 2 tons of mercury from Spain, but came in Cucuta-Colombia-Venezuela and overland to the state of Bolivar (...) And the toxic liquid mineral already been distributed in the different peoples of mining tradition and is being sold through various hardware stores, shops selling materials for mining, gold and diamond buyers in Santa Elena de Uairén " , Denounced Lanz.
To minimize the work gold in the entity should take into account the dimensions of which involves illegal mining in all its breadth, "isolated actions will not solve the invasions of pristine natural areas or biologically relevant in Bolivar," concluded the director of CIEV .

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