Argentina Restricts Access to an Andean Plain After Damage Caused by a Pickup Truck
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A 46-year-old doctor went into a white van on the fragile clayy surface and traveled nearly a mile.
The vehicle, which crossed 1.5 kilometres of this natural jewel in the north of the country, has been trapped in a clay and silt terrain, impossible to to tow without causing further environmental damage.
Argentina restricts access to an Andean plain after damage caused by a pickup truck
Authorities in the Argentine province of San Juan will keep access to Pampa del Leoncito restricted until the end of the month, after a vehicle drove across the white clay plain, located at 1,500 meters above sea level at the foot of the Andes, despite a ban on traffic, leaving ruts up to 25 centimeters deep.
The defendant claims that he did not know about the ban on circulation. The destruction will take a century to reverse and the local authorities ask for an exemplary sanction.
An incident in Pampa del Leoncito, an area protected from the foothills of the Andes, caused serious damage to an extremely sensitive ecosystem. Specialists warn that the land affected will recover very hard.
A rare natural area was seriously affected in northern Argentina, in the department of Calingasta, on the foot of the Anzi. Pampa del Leoncito, a 12-kilometre long and 3-kilometre wide field, made up of clay and mud, was destroyed by an incident that, according to experts, will leave traces that will last a century to disappear. According to Greenpeace Spain, what happened is an "authentic aggression" in an area where human interventions should …
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