Peruvian Report Shows Gas Company Overflying Manu Park, Most Biodiverse Place On Planet

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A map in an internal Peruvian government report reveals that gas company Pluspetrol has been flying over the protected Manu National Park (MNP) in the south-eastern Peruvian Amazon where UNESCO says the biodiversity "exceeds that of any other place on earth." The over-flight was done via helicopter on 3 February, 2012 by Pluspetrol personnel together with a team from the National Institute for the Development of Andean, Amazonian and Afroperuvian Peoples (INDEPA).

According to the report's Annex 1, INDEPA's proposal was to fly over the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti Territorial Reserve (RTKNN) for indigenous peoples in "voluntary isolation" and "initial contact." RTKNN is immediately west of the MNP, and almost a quarter of its area is overlapped by a gas concession operated by Pluspetrol called "Lot 88." The plan refers to flying to "the limits of the RTKNN," but makes no mention of flying over the MNP.

Annex 2 to the report is a map of INDEPA's proposed flight plan and Annex 3 a map of the route actually flown, which shows the helicopter went well beyond the eastern boundary of Lot 88, beyond the RTKNN, and over the westernmost part of the MNP. Annex 4 includes photos and maps of settlements beyond Lot 88 and the RTKNN, as well as an additional, amplified map showing that they flew over the MNP and crossed a river marked as "Rio Manu Chico." An aide memoir attached to the report states, "The overflight route taken differed from the proposed and agreed route," highlighting that it involved flying over settlements called Sagondoari, Marankeato and Montetoni outside the RTKNN and "even entering 4.5kms into Manu National Park (headwaters of the River Cashpajali)."

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"Lot 88 is recognised as the corner-stone of the engine of the nation's economic development," Quartz's report states. "Our mission, as an institution providing specialist technical services to Pluspetrol, will be to contribute not only to the continuation of activities in Lot 88, but also to the development of the Manu National Park protected area and the development of the nation through sustained private investment in hydrocarbons. . . Pluspetrol has plans to do geological exploration in the River Maquizapango region and/or its surroundings, an area to the east of the Lot (88) and inside the Manú National Park."

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Ed. - And as we all know, there is no value anywhere, at any time or in any sense or understanding of reality that is more important than economic development. Money - lots and lots of money made as quickly as possible - is the supreme value. It is the most important thing that ever was, and the most important thing that ever will be. The more quickly it is made, the greater value it has. Those who question what comes after the money is made, those who look beyond the next 90 days, or beyond project deadlines, are those who seek to destroy human life, and condemn humanity to disease, pain, war and death. Only wonderful, shining, divine, sacred and omnipotent money can solve our problems.

http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1017-hill-pluspetrol-manu.html

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Every human in the world should consider the killing of the old forests the most evil egregious crime possible.

But instead I don't know one single person who minds it.

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