大火失控！复活节岛神秘石像遭到永久性破坏
The fire, caused by the nearby Rano Raraku volcano, started Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as "Moai" which were created by a Polynesian tribe over 500 years ago, native officials reported.
Polynesian seafarers first arrived on Rapa Nui approximately 900 years ago, and have long made researchers curious why the huge statues were placed where they are.
According to UNESCO, the Polynesian society settled on the island and established a "powerful, imaginative and original tradition of monumental sculpture and architecture, free from any external influence," such as the "erected enormous stone figures known as Moai, which created an unrivaled landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout the world."
The high temperature of the forest fire accelerated the process through which the stone carvings will eventually turn into sand, Mayor Pedro Edmunds Paoa said.
The damage is "irreparable and immeasurable as well," he said.
The high temperatures calcinate the stone of Moais, which leads it to "crack" and with time "it starts to collapse," Edmunds Paoa told a local radio station.
Edmunds Paoa blamed locals who raise cows and horses in the island and regularly burn grassland. And he accused the state of abandoning the island.
"The work of avoiding accidents and fires involves a prevention plan that requires resources and that's what we don't have," he said.
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