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Message: They will change figure of forest reserve to river basin of the Caura river
They will change figure of forest reserve to river basin of the Caura river
Wednesday, 28 of April of 2010

The National Assembly (AN) elaborates a project to change the figure of forest reserve in the zone of the river basin of the Caura river, where the Government activated east weekend the Caura Plan to protect this water channel of the state Bolivar of the illegal mining. Thus it indicated east Tuesday the deputy Julio Garci'a, Natural member of the Permanent Atmosphere Commission, Resources and Territorial Arrangement of the Parliament.

It explained that this change of legal figure obeys to that “the existing experience in the country is that the forest reserves are easy breach so that capitalist groups that they work with wood end the forests and foment therefore the danger of the climatic change and the greenhouse effect”.

Garci'a remembered who the last week, the plenary one of an conformed a retinue, with members of the commissions of indigenous towns, defense and atmosphere, to take care of the denunciations of groups of illegal miners who operate in the reserve of the Caura river, which generates effects and depression of the wooded mass polluting.

It indicated that the alert that received in the Parliament is that the number of invading groups in the gold search grows, that until influenced some natives in order to use them as it transports of the extracted material and gasoline for the plants that are used in the processes of mining extraction.

It honored the deputy who the National Armed Forces Bolivariana (FANB) investigate this situation and fly over the zone, where they already detected the concentration of some mining groups.

“We are sure that as well as we did to the south of the Caroní, the established FANB, communal advice around indigenous groups, the Legislative Power, the ministries for the Basic Atmosphere and Industries and Mining mobilized by the preservation of the zone, they will have effective actions”, expressed.

Garci'a emphasized the ecological importance of the river basin of the Caura river, that reunites to an ample biodiversity, fundamental for the existence of the life in the zone and the accumulation of great reserves water.

“Are 5 million hectares considered by the ecologists of the world like the last pristine borders of the country and of the planet”, it expressed.

He reiterated that the illegal mining ends the vegetation when throwing toxic elements like mercury, used for the extraction of gold.

On the other hand, the governor of the state Bolivar, Francisco Rangel Go'mez, also in telephone contact with the program, emphasized that it is not possible to be allowed to the affectation of the river basins of the Caroní and the Caura, those that described like purest as the world. ABN

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