UNESCO released a report that highlights the risk of the Iguaçu National Park, Parana, to join the list of threatened natural heritage.
The report lists two major risks to preservation. The first is the construction of the hydroelectric plant in the Low Iguassu, 500 meters from the park boundary.
The plant should be ready by 2016 and will generate power for one million consumers. According to the consortium responsible for the project, the project complies with environmental laws.
Another risk is seen by Unesco reopening of Settler Road. The stretch of 17 km, is located inside the national park and has been closed since 2001. Highway shortens the distance between two agricultural regions.
A bill by Mr. Assisi Couto, PT, for the reopening of the road is in the Senate, but without foresight to go to vote.
"An environmental impact study will be done because if some more engineering issues are necessary for the protection of the protected area, will also be determined by an environmental impact study before building the road. So, it is an ecological road," argues Assisi Couto, Congressman (PT / PR) and author of the project to reopen.
On Friday (9), environmentalists flew over the Iguassu National Park to assess the stage of construction of the plant. Settler Road in the region, they could see signs of recovery of the forest.
In the report , UNESCO asked the Brazilian government to keep the road closed and wants information about the environmental impact of the plant.
UNESCO gave a deadline to Brazil. If, till 2015, the country not follow the recommendations and clarify the necessary questions, the National Park of Iguaçu can lose one of their main titles : the natural heritage of humanity.
"If Brazil lets its most important 'cataract' between in a red list is a disgrace. It say that we have no ability to care for such a small space, in a country as large and has so many resources, "argues Maria Cecilia Wey de Brito, general secretary of WWF Brazil.
The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity and Conservation (ICMBIO), responsible for the supervision and monioring of the parks, issued a statement stating that it is against the project, understanding that the reopening of the Settler Road compromises the integrity of the resources of the area, which has global importance because of its biological diversity.
The institute also said that, along with the Ministry of Environment, operates so that the project is not approved.
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