(3 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY
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ARCHIVE: Nazca, Peru – 18 May 1995
1. Various from Nazca Lines seen from airplane
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 3 June 2025
2. Jorge Montero, Minister of Energy and Mines of Peru
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Montero, Minister of Energy and Mines of Peru:
"The Nazca polygon was a very large area where a number of economic activities were restricted, including mining."
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Montero, Minister of Energy and Mines of Peru:
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"If within the boundaries of the offloaded sector, there are mining activities that were illegal when the reserve existed, then they would now need to comply with the regulations to be lawful, or otherwise be suspended."
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ARCHIVE: Nazca, Peru – 18 May 1995
5. Various from Nazca Lines
STORYLINE:
Peru’s Ministry of Mines on Tuesday said that the government’s decision to reduce the boundaries of the protected Nazca Lines park would allow mining activities within the law’s mandates.
The decision to reduce the reserve by 2,162 square miles (5,600 square kilometers) to almost half its original size, announced on May 30, had sparked alarm among conservationists, archaeologists, and environmental advocates.
The critic’s argument was partially confirmed when the Ministry of Culture, steward of the park, also said there is mining in the area.
During Tuesday’s briefing, Jorge Montero, Minister of Energy and Mines of Peru, said those with illegal mining projects in the now offloaded area "would now need to comply with the regulations to be lawful, or otherwise be suspended."
"This is a new and unexpected situation for us that we have to address," Montero said.
Critics consider this a rollback that paves the way for informal mining and weakens decades of cultural and ecological protection, while the government says the adjustment reflects updated scientific studies and does not compromise the UNESCO World Heritage status or the site’s core protections.
The area in question forms part of a UNESCO-recognized World Heritage Site, home to the Nazca Lines — massive geoglyphs etched into the desert thousands of years ago — and one of Peru’s most fragile desert ecosystems.
The Nazca Lines, located on the slopes of the Pacific coastal desert south of Lima, number more than 300 and include drawings of human figures, animals, plants and objects. Some are up to 270 metres long and were discovered in 1927.
It is believed that these lines, observed from light aircraft by tourists, were constructed by the inhabitants of the pre-Inca culture known as the Nazca, who lived in the area from 500 BC.
For decades, scholars have been unable to agree on the purpose of the geoglyphs. Some believe that the lines were related to astronomy and may have been a kind of calendar; others believe that the lines were related to water management, a very scarce resource in the area, where it almost never rains.
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