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Record tourism could harm Easter Island statues

Submitted By Craig Redman 198 days ago | i2.cdn.turner.com
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It's earth's most remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it "Te Pito O Te Henua," or "The Navel of the World." "We are at the point now where, either we protect what we have or we lose it," said Susana Nahoe, an archaeologist who was a liaison between Chile's National Tourism Service and the island's scientific community before leaving the post two years ago, citing "differences in values."

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