DEATH CHAIN IN PERU CONTINUES

The flight halfway up a dozen vultures shows that something is rotting on the beach, facing Vichayito, in the district of organs (Talara). It is a sea lion, for your state, seems to have been dead for four days. To the side, several birds with beak buried lie, apparent victims of poisoning. Not the first sea lion found dead in the sea between Mancora and organs, which are the most beautiful and popular beaches of northern Peru. By now (Wednesday 30 September) and we found four dead wolves in that stretch. Days later (Friday October 2) would give us some contact information of the presence of other wolves remains of decaying on the beaches further north, between Mancora and Zorritos (Tumbes). What is happening to wolves?, We wonder. After several days of investigations discovered that the cause of these deaths are illegal punches prawns, which kill these animals because they destroy their fishing nets. Several fishermen we interviewed, but declined to be identified, said that wolves are killed using a powerful poison purchased in Ecuador. The liquid is injected into fish which are thrown overboard to be eaten by wolves. WAR OF THE LOCUST The Peruvian sea, facing districts Bodies, Mancora and Zorritos, has various species: whales, sea lions and a variety of fish such as grouper, grouper, grape eye, conger, bass, cherlo, marlin and swordfish, among the most sought. But there, to delight the most discerning tastes, lobsters and prawns. Indeed, the latter species is one that has caused the greed of certain fishermen, mostly from Sechura and Parachique, who have made the illegal takes not only a business prohibited, but a practice that threatens the environment. Daily, from dawn until the wee hours of the morning, a dozen medium-draft vessels as much destroys marine species fall into their networks. The objective is the shrimp, but do not bother if they fall other prized species. The illicit pulls exercised within five nautical miles, which, as everyone knows, is prohibited. However, the maritime authority (the Port Authority) has done little to halt it. It is said that sometimes do operations, but while we were in the area (between 29 September and 4 October) not think of any. We also witnessed the inaction of the police, the municipality and the prosecution. Residents and tourists, of course, are outraged because the beaches look dirty and contaminated waste left in clandestine landing sites and by the decomposition of sea lions. DEATH CHAIN However, the problem is not only to do with the illegal catch of prawns and killing sea lions, but with the death of vultures and pelicans that feed on dead wolves by poisoning. Thus the daily scenario is more or less as follows: at sea trawlers boats to cross the shrimp ponds, which transport them to the beach. There, a group of people waiting to take the goods into trucks that are parked on the boardwalk of organs or passable road that runs behind the hotels or residences of Mancora. The final destination is the Talara restaurants, Sullana, Piura and Chiclayo. Very close to this sea lions lie rotting under the hum of thousands of flies and buzzards flapping dozen vying for the remains. Beyond some of these birds of prey pay tribute to dead ending his hunger by eating poisoned food. Days pass and nobody, not even the authorities, deigns to collect debris and contaminants smelly. The spa is no man's land Mancora is, in colloquial terms, no man's land. The land where rise hotels, residences, restaurants, homes, lots, shacks, clubs and even the district municipality, does not belong to its current occupants, but almost a hundred community members who are part of the Rural Community of Mancora (CCM) . This was confirmed by the president of this community, Everardo Távara Valladares, and the district mayor, Victor Raul Saucedo Llaque. But not only the community owns Mancora. Also much of the districts of El Alto and organs. In total, own 26,230 acres, as has been established in the form number 28467 of the Registry Office of Piura. However, some of the possessors of these lands have been regularized tenure buying them from the community and then inscribing his name in the public records. Today Everardo Távara Valladares is selling the land that are still unoccupied, but has simultaneously suing those who have occupied, according to him illegally.