拥抱生态旅游（Embrace Ecotourism）.docVIP

拥抱生态旅游（Embrace Ecotourism） Embrace Ecotourism (author: data source: Hao360 English learning network) Aremote Patagonian town thats just beginning to prosper by guiding tourists through the virgin forests nearby is being shaken by the realization that its sitting on a gold mine. Literally. More than Esquel residents recently took 3000 worried to the streets in protests aimed at assuring that their neat community of 28000 beco mes an ecotourism center not a gold-rush town. Patagonia, a remote town near the virgin forests because of the development of tourism is gradually prosperous, at this point, but like a bolt from the blue that contains the original local gold deposit. Youre right。 More than three thousand worried Esquel residents recently took to the streets to protest, to the requirements of net with twenty-eight thousand inhabitants, an ecotourism center, not a gold rush town. Esquels plight is winning attention from international conservation and environmental groups such as Greenpeace. In Argentina, the town has become a national symbol in the debate over exploitation vs. preservation of the countrys vast natural resources. Esquels plight is winning attention from green peace and other international conservation and environmental groups. The town has become a symbol of the nation in debating whether the rich natural resources of Argentina should be developed or preserved. About 3.2 million acres already are under contract for mineral exploration in poor and sparsely settled Chubut Province, where Esquel is, near the southern tip of South America. Whether Meridian Gold Corp. gets its open-pit gold mine outside Esquel could determine the fate of mining in Patagonia, a pristine region spanning southern Argentina and Chile. The province is located close to the Chubut Esquel mainland South America southern, poor and sparsely populated, mineral exploration contracts covering the province nearly three million and two hundred thousand acres of land. The Patagonia pla