| Denuncian ecocidio en Zipolite
Habitantes de Zipolite denuncian devastación de amplia área verde y destrucción de especies vegetales y animales. * El dueño presume tener ...
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* Inhabitants of Zipolite denounce devastation of a large green area and destruction of plant and animal species
* The owner presumes to have a lot of money and with it to be able to do what he wants
Patricia Pacheco
ZIPOLITE, POCHUTLA .- The complaint was made public through a video that a Facebook user climbed on her wall; in it, he expressed his regret for the serious ecological damage that the owner of a property in a hill of Zipolite, caused by cutting down trees and destroying all the vegetation in the area to prepare the construction of a real estate complex.
The woman, identified as Andre TG, exhorted people to raise their voices and prevent the destruction of a green area, home to several species and that in a matter of days has been totally devastated.
Devastan green zone
The call of Andre, it was known, was the echo of a series of complaints made by local residents, who showed outrage at what happened just hours before, when retro excavators and other heavy machines were in charge of finishing the thick vegetation in a large property, whose owner, in a totally intentional and irresponsible way "cleaned" the place to prepare the embankment that precedes any building.
Among the complaints posted on networks, a user's version narrates the drastic way in which the landscape of the land changed, located at the top of the road that leads to the cemetery, in just a few hours.
"I am rich, you are poor"
"They have devastated an entire green zone, of trees, of life. And one is made a hole in the soul see how they take everything ahead, "he said in a message broadcast by Instagram.
The dissatisfied tells the way his wife went to question the owner of the land and try to tell him to stop the destruction, receiving as a bucket of ice water the answer: "I am rich, you are poor and with my land I do what I want, and call whoever you want because I'm rich. "
Reactions on the issue were immediate, and several irritated citizens of Zipolite have collaborated to lodge complaints with the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa), which must review the case and make an inspection.
They initiate petition in digital platform
The event escalated to the change.org global platform, where a massive petition for signatures with the title "Save the green areas of Zipolite, Oaxaca" began,
and the hashtag #soyzipoliteyluchoporti, which after a day has accumulated some 200 signatures of Internet users.
In the explanatory statement of the petition, Andrea Trejo, the applicant, explains that on the morning of April 10, on one of the hills of Zipolite, where only birds are heard, they began to hear machines pruning trees and flattening the earth , which destroyed an extensive green area and the species of the place.
The letter criticizes those who with their economic power overwhelm natural resources and calls on the people of Zipolite to raise their voices to maintain the green areas "and not for a few dollars we lose the ability to come together to do something for our home".
Minimizes agent effects
Consulted on the subject, the agent Berenice Díaz Gómez, indicated that communal representatives and officials of the area of municipal Ecology appeared in the place to verify the presumed affectations.
He pointed out that trees were effectively felled, but none of large size, only small güizaches, although he acknowledged that "it looks impressive because the land is very large."
The sayings of the representative contradict those of the neighbors of the area, who say that it was a green lung, with diverse trees, medicinal plants, flowers and a great variety of species, including birds, reptiles and mammals, "no just guizachitos, as they say ".
Raining threats to whistleblowers
It is worth mentioning that a few hours ago that the user Andrea Trejo published the video denouncing the alleged ecocide, she herself eliminated it, as she confirmed to this reporter, after being intimidated, because she said "I do not want to risk anything and neither does anyone "
In addition to Andrea, a family near the site suffered the visit of subjects who demanded to stop the comments and criticism for the devastation poured into networks.
Inhabitants recognize that there is an imminent traffic of land in the area and that the powerful owners of land, national and foreign, who come to build their residences, little they care to annihilate the resources of the place or affect ecosystems such as mangroves. In addition, they announced that the issue will be taken to the next community assembly.
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