SOLIDARIDAD, May 5 — In a cave in Mexico ’s Riviera Maya, where nature has sculpted a subterranean landscape of stunning beauty, thick steel columns supporting a controversial new tourist railway intrude into a delicate ecosystem.
“It’s our worst nightmare. We’ve seen a large drill entering and breaking the ceiling of the cave” as well as its ancient stalactites, biologist and speleologist Roberto Rojo told AFP, surveying the damage.In March, Rojo’s group Selvame del Tren filmed a huge drill piercing a hole into a cavern for one of the pillars supporting a railway viaduct.
But according to environmentalists, the government moved the section into the jungle to avoid a conflict with hoteliers who feared traffic delays during construction.‘Ecocide’They say the project lacks the proper environmental impact studies, has razed 8.7 million trees and has irreversibly damaged the underground ecosystem.
“Plants, animals and ourselves depend on this, which is one of the last healthy aquifers we have in Mexico,” he said. The government also created a protected area in the southeastern state of Campeche that it says will be the second-largest rainforest reserve in the world, after the Brazilian Amazon.
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