equences generated by illegal the auriferous activity and the low level that the Carrao river presents/displays have paralyzed the tourism in the Lagoon of Canaina. Thus Alexander Lanz informed, director of the Ecological Research center of Venezuela (CIEV), that has received the alert on the part of indigenous representatives of the communities and tourist operators of the western zone of the National Park Canaima. “The Carrao river is in a critical level that it prevents the navigability of the boats and the tourism has collapsed (...) to the environmental factors of drought adds the indiscriminate action of the man, when having itself knowledge of the illegal mining that is developed in the region without control some”, the ecologist stood out. According to Lanz informs, around 40 Brazilian, Colombian mining equipment made up of and guyaneses undocumented people are devastating the river Cucurital and the Pretty, affluent of Caroní and located Playa in the low part of the Carrao river.

“According to they informed all the illegal activity to us is commanded by guyanés of Bay last name, that coordinates the equipment located between the Cucurital river and pretty beach, before canaima, specifically, in the mouth of the cucurital river with the Caroní river”, indicated the director of the CIEV.

Also, it indicated that, in spite of the realised denunciations, the presence of these irregular ones destroying the natural resources of the National Park Canaima continues without greater governmental answer, in spite of being prohibited by the Venezuelan laws east type of activities in protected areas.

“The absence of controls has impelled the development of a greater presence of illegal miners in the zone, another example is the sector “Guindao Monkey”, near San Vicente de Paul, in who they are more than 30 mining equipment undermining the shores of the Caroní and throwing great amount from sediments to this river, main water body that Represa de Guri feeds”, alerted.

As it is of public knowledge, the mining paralyzation in the river basin of the Caroní on the part of the national Executive back took place years, after verifying the consequences that the removal of sediments generates in causes of the river basin and the shortening of the main life of the hydroelectric one of the country.

“It is a very delicate situation, had that is had we continued multiplying the mining campings in the National Park Canaima as much”, like in the average Caroní and its heads”, it affirmed Lanz.

In this sense, it informed that the CIEV has continued receiving denunciations on the constant installation of mining equipment with hydraulic monitors from the Guacharaquita to the Pretty ones, where there are approximately 300 equipment working and all the sedimentation falls to him to the Caroní river (...) In the pretty ones, indigenous communities have denounced that the auriferous operation illegal this directed by the clan of the Martinez and uses original populations for the extraction of gold and the diamond under a pseudo-esclavización when not counting they with the presence of no institution of the State protects that them”, stood out.

Also, this massive invasion of undocumented foreigners represents a movement of foods and fuel in great proportions, reason why it is not explained how any military administration or civil of the Paragua and City Bolivar, localities where they leave the provisions, do not realize. (It presses Ciev)