Easter Island and the Environment: A Warning to the World

Easter Island and the Environment: Warning to the World Advances in human development involve costs. The environment provides various resources for use or evaluation. However, if you change the elements of this structure, for example by deleting a tree, you may get unintended consequences. Because these changes can also cause problems that the population can not solve, the population must deal with losses wherever possible. The case study here shows how the remote system is overwhelmed and can not support residents that were once possible.

Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pasca) is a Chilean island located at the easternmost end of the Polynesian Delta in the South East Pacific Oceania. Easter Island is best known for its approximately 1,000 existing huge statues, created by its early Rapa Nui people called Moai. In 1995, UNESCO designated Easter Island as a World Heritage Site. Most of them were protected by Rapa Nui National Park. It is thought that residents of Polynesia on Easter Island arrived in Easter Island around 1200 AD. They created a prosperous and diligent culture with many huge stones and other relics on the island. However, the cultivation of the land and the introduction of rats of Polynesia led to a gradual deforestation. By the time it arrived in Europe in 1722, the island's population was estimated at 2,000 - 3,000. European illness, slave attacks of Peru in the 1860s, and immigrants to other islands

At the Easter of 1722, the Dutch explorer landed on Easter Island. For thousands of years, the civilization that is 4,000 kilometers across the Pacific Ocean is to meet the world for the first time. An island dotted with hundreds of huge stone statues and an unexpected primitive society - strangers are trying to discover something very strange. The first meeting was a big cultural confrontation. (It's also bloodshed: the crew killed ten local people within minutes of the landing.) Where did the islanders come from? Why and how do they increase these numbers? Contemporary science is connected, but it is too late for Easter Islanders.