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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Alexander Villegas

On Easter Island, burned Moai statues are a symbol of growing tensions

Image of a Moai damaged in a forest fire inside the Rano Raraku volcano in Rapa Nui park, Easter Island, Chile November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza

Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and conservationists in this tiny, remote island in the middle of the Pacific.

The island, which has been a Chilean territory since the 1880s, is known by its indigenous inhabitants as Rapa Nui and is famed for its huge monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by their ancestors.

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