Instagram post shows environmental destruction in Tena
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- 25 Mar 2022
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In social networks, an Instagram post circulates in which two photos taken from the El Ceibo viewpoint, in Tena, are compared. LA HORA verified the post.
Daniel Bustos shared on his Instagram account what would be the environmental destruction of the El Ceibo viewpoint, in Tena, Amazon region. In a first photograph you can see the island that formed the fork of the Jatunyacu River , before the destruction caused by illegal mining. In the other image, the fork no longer exists.
José Moreno, president of the Napo Ama La Vida collective and who fights against the destruction of the province's rivers, told LA HORA that the bottom vegetation no longer exists.
Precisely from that viewpoint, on November 2, 2022, Moreno detected that there were four backhoes in the lower part of the island . The same day he made the complaint to the Prosecutor's Office and notified the governor of Napo, Wilfrido Villagómez .
"He could act immediately," Moreno said, citing Presidential Decree 151, which empowers governments to control illegal mining.
“Two years ago we have been warning that this could happen, nobody did anything until it got out of control and we had to report it through national and international media,” Moreno insisted by telephone. Read More...
