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DEFENSELESS TREE MASACRED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT!!!
On the 1st of January, 2000, the last remaining Silver Torch Cactus was cut down in the Atacama Desert to build a basketball court for the residents in Chile.
The event that brought in the new millennium saw rise to a heinous crime transpiring at noon.
Construction workers went in guns blazing to clear the land with their bulldozers, chainsaws, and machetes. This would for them result in just another day at the office had there not have been an endangered species calling the place home. The rare and now extinct Silver Torch Cactus. Residents there rose up and tried to protect the plant, but despite their best efforts, were futile.
One 89 year old resident living on the property, Mr. Jordi Reyes, had this to say: “I have lived here long. I grew up here. I fell in love here. For all my life I have called here home. They just came in here without considering the little people and they destroyed my home.”
This reporter moved land and sea to have an exclusive interview with the face behind the project. It did not last long, for when confronted with the contractor of the project, one Ms. Megan Janczak she had this to say: “This project is for the community. We have been and we will continue to work long and hard to provide an oasis whereby these people can come to have fun in a safe environment. If they cannot appreciate that then it is not my problem. It is a shame a tree had to go down, but most didn’t even know it was there.” Having that said she ended the interview and stormed out.
The project still continues with around the clock foundational work being carried out. The impact that it will cause on the wildlife and ecosystem on a whole is yet unprecedented. However uncertain the future for this place, one thing is for sure, there will never again be a Silver Torch Cactus in the Atacama Desert. Was it worth it? It is for you to decide, and for the residents to lament.
Written: January 18, 2019
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