* The political cost to put boundary to illegal the mining extraction in the zone continues prevailing in the river basin of the Caura while they are continued destroying his ecosystems; invaluable as a whole, but very quoted some of its minerals

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Caura, considered one of little biomas pristine in Latin America comes suffering from the 2006 - together one the ancestral indigenous ethnic groups who live in him, of a cyclical incursion of miners without the State shows a political will real and maintained to make fulfill the constitutional rules in environmental matter and of indigenous towns, to mention the most visible edges of the case.
Representatives of the ethnic groups Yek´wana, Sanema and Hoti, grouped in the indigenous organization Kuyujani, next to educative centers superiors as the Experimental University of Guayana (UNEG) and diverse ONG´s comes alerting on the displacement of indigenous communities, the destruction of ecosystems, the bribe to the military and the violation of human rights of those who dare to denounce the upsettings that offer natives who defend their habitats.
“To the river basin of the Caura of 4,5 million hectares located in the Sucre municipality of the state Bolivar, they fall five figures of environmental protection (ABRAE) that are disappearing progressively without “nobody finds out”, questions Alexander Lanz, director of the Ecological Research center of Venezuela. Even though he notices that the Theater of Nro Operations. 5 have acted of intermittent form to evacuate illegal miners within the river basin throughout these 3 years.
Nevertheless, indigenous representatives question driving of the Armed Forces, which only act when the massive mass media exert a pressure necessary to activate operative a special one.
In these evacuations, to5 has found hydraulic tens of undocumented people, motors - mining, combustible machinery in drums of 200 liters, food; “and nevertheless they continue existing illegal the mining campings and every time with more miners”, questions Arthur Rodriguez, member of the Kuyujani organization.
Although the military control the fuel provision in the zone, as well as they watch the fluvial displacement in the zone (unique via of transport), miners continue acceding the High river basin of the Caura, illegal miners with great equipment and provisions; something that the natives do not explain themselves.
Also, “the disinterestedness shown by the governments local and regional in the subject, is reflected of a region without law, where the corruption, the Mafias and the indifference reign with greater weight than the Constitution of the Bolivariana Republic of Venezuela”, assured Lanz the CIEV.
It indicates that he is simpler to run over natives and to devastate ecosystems that to generate worthy and viable uses in the region, to activate coherent public policies and to presumably fight the corruption, same that embaucó to the Creoles of the depressed Sucre municipality with the put into operation of a plant yucca processor years back.
However, anthropologist Nalúa Silva of the UNEG has indicated in repeated declarations that “the evacuation of the miners of the Paragua in 2006 generated a movement internal of miners who went to the zone of the Caura (…) to them other miners added themselves who were evacuated of the border strip of Brazil since that space were given by the Brazilian government to the natives like part of its policy of territorial recognition to the indigenous towns in the denominated zone of Vixen do Sun”, reason why the mining invasion goes at present beyond local actors.
In as much, the Kuyujani Organization has been continuing denouncing the mining incursions to her habitats - same in which Been she is in constitutional blackberry with the earth naming, fulfilled for more than two years with the processes of autodemarcación of her territories.
For the director of the Ciev, the problem concentrates in a fight of powers where the State prefers to be silente.
“The human societies, like the Venezuelan, obtain essential goods of the natural ecosystems for their feeding, growth and development such as fish, fruits, animal, wood, fuel and in this case illicit enrichment through precious minerals (…) nevertheless, ¨a where these illegally extracted wealth go”
It indicates Lanz that far from to win, the country loses allowing the mining in the Caura, “because in spite of being illegal, really a complacencia for the activity by consent, omission or fat view are allowed and existed”, stands out.
“Nevertheless, very little we spoke of the services that give the ecosystems to the humanity and without which the civilizations would stop prospering. These include purification of the air, minimisation of droughts and floods, regeneration of the fertility of grounds, recycling and movement of nutrients, between tens of complex interactions of natural cycles”, comment.
According to numbers presented/displayed by doctor Nalúa Silva of the UNEG, the Caura it guarantees in pristine state “the production of 1,4 trillions of tons of biomass equivalent to more than 700 million tons, it owns more than 2,600 species of plants you will tilt and maintain to 17% of the vegetal diversity of Venezuela and 28% of the vegetal diversity of the Guayana and that of the registered endemic plants for the Guayana, the Caura owns 88.3%. Besides this in the river basin of the Caura are 32% of the registered animal species in Venezuela and 441 species of fish have been reported until now of which 35 are in extinction danger. Meaning that by its biological megadiversity and its cultural diversity, its high hydric production and the environmental services given the humanity, the Caura is a unique space in the world”, shows the investigator.
The voices in defense of this reservorio of life continue firm like the governmental paralysis in relation to the Illegal Mining in the Caura, lack to know whatever make lack more to conserve it, as they send the laws national.