Trump Administration is blowing up a UNESCO Biosphere in Arizona
In a big blow to the nation’s moral consciousness, the Trump Administration is blowing up a national monument (a mountain) in Arizona to create border wall. According to a report published in ‘The Intercept” dated 7th Feb 2020, the blasting is happening on the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a tract of Sonoran Desert wilderness long celebrated as one of the nation’s great ecological treasures, that holds profound spiritual significance to multiple Native American groups.
Magnified View of Monument Hill in Organ Pipe National Monument
In a statement to The Intercept, U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that the blasting began this week and will continue through the end of the month. “The construction contractor has begun controlled blasting, in preparation for new border wall system construction, within the Roosevelt Reservation at Monument Mountain in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector,” the statement said, referring to an area also known as Monument Hill. “The controlled blasting is targeted and will continue intermittently for the rest of the month.”
The agency added that it “will continue to have an environmental monitor present during these activities as well as on-going clearing activities.”
Celebrated as “a pristine example of an intact Sonoran Desert ecosystem,” Organ Pipe was designated as a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve in 1976.
If this kind of Government-sponsored atrocities happening in the advanced democratic country like America, there is no hope to the rest of the world.
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Source: The Intercept Story dated 7th Feb, 2020