The environmental organization Greenpeace would be covering up the people responsible for the damages caused to the Hummingbird figure on the Nazca Lines, by not providing their names and addresses, considered today Peru Culture minister Diana Alvarez-Calderón.
This happened early Monday morning, when a group of activists displayed a message next to the hummingbird of the Nazca Lines. They laid big yellow cloth letters reading: "Time for Change; The Future is Renewable."
The incident happened while the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP20) was being held in Lima.
"Greenpeace must know who their representatives are. By now, Mauro Fernández [Coordinator of Climate and Energy in the Andean region] has been reachable and he would need to have provided the names of those who accompanied him," she stated.
Today the minister met with Greenpeace Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo.
"We will have to develop a system in order to see if it is possible to carry out [financial] remedies. Then there is a lawsuit that needs to be accomplished and finally, the judge will be the one to decide how much is the amount that we are talking about," she added.
Álvarez-Calderón noted the director of Greenpeace has committed to carry out an internal investigation, which will take about a month, in order to find out -among its 27 subsidiaries in the world- the names of the masterminds.
“However, we think Greenpeace should know which, of its activists, are the ones who traveled [to Peru]. They have had time to prepare all this. So, we think Greenpeace has information they have not provided, but they will also have to do it through court," she stressed.
The representative of the Culture Ministry confirmed all people, who damaged the Hummingbird figure of the Nazca Lines have already left Peru.
This action of leaving the country shows their knowledge about the severity of their actions, she told reporters.
Located about 400 kilometers south of Lima and covering about 450 square kilometers, the Nazca Lines were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.
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Published: 12/15/2014