The Minister of the Environment of the Nation, Juan CabandieHe asked for “fall the full weight of the law” about those responsible for the fires in the “Los Alerces” National Park, province of Chubut, which began on February 4. Research suggests that a Mapuche would have been the one who caused the fire.
Is about Cruz Cardenas, a former National Parks worker, who is wanted by the police. The member of the Mapuche community is also accused of other altercations as one of the promoters of the seizure of a house used by park rangers in 2020 in Los Alerces Park.
He is also targeted for an attack on a national parks vehicle and for participating in various pickets on routes. He has been wanted since 2021 by both the National Gendarmerie and the Federal Police.
In a tour of Los Alerces days ago together with the president of the National Parks Administration (APN), Federico Granato, Cabandié said: “This is an ecocide and we are not going to accept these situations that are experienced with some frequency and that hurt, generate reductions and affect our ecosystems, families and the planet; It’s distressing that this happens.”
“we hope that the full weight of the law falls on those responsible if it is proven that there was intentionality. It is a federal crime since it was generated within a national jurisdiction,” added the official, who stressed that the situation today “has improved considerably in the territory.”
The governor of Chubut, Mariano Arcioni, and the secretary of Forests of the province of Chubut, Rodrigo Roveta, expressed themselves along the same lines.
Fires in Chubut: the fire razed more than a thousand hectares and the provincial government suspects that it was intentional
Meanwhile, according to Clarionthe authorities of the Los Alerces National Park would have identified a suspect of starting the fire, who has not yet been located.
It would be a former park ranger named Cruz Cárdenas, who is also a reference to the Lof Pailako Mapuche community, and who has a current arrest warrant issued in July 2021.
Chubut: almost 1,400 hectares burned and the fire “is under control”
On Sunday afternoon, the Chubut provincial government reported that the fire registered in the vicinity of the “Los Alerces” National Park is under control and that the one in Lake Cholila is contained.
A wide deployment of resources is carried out by the Provincial Government, in cooperation with the National Fire Management Service, the PNLA, municipalities and institutions, to combat fire incidents in the ejidos of Esquel, Cholila and El Hoyo.
The forest fire that had started a little over a week ago in the PNLA and then advanced towards Laguna Larga could be controlled, reported the Provincial Fire Management Service (SPMF).
According to official estimates, the fire affected an area of 1,390 hectares of vegetation (native forest, scrubland, and grassland).
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