Shrinking Glacier = Shrinking Tourism Dollars for Peru
Nov 19
But now, Pastoruri has melted down to a third of a square mile—half its normal size after almost a dozen of the hottest years on record. This isn’t only a sad reminder of global climate change. It’s also a serious threat to the Cordillera Blanca economy as a mere 34,000 visitors came through last year compared to the heydays of the 1990s.
That’s why Peruvians are trying to turn it into a global warming museum attraction. Instead of a winter resort location, Pastoruri is now being marketed as a live measure of global warming—a sort of surreal nature walk laden withvarious examples of environmental change in action.
According to MitraTaj’s article on ScientificAmerican.com, “Visitors pass marshes and ponds red with rust as they walk over a hill that was once ice,” and ,“Newly exposed rocks have also revealed fossilized marine species that likely last saw the light of day before the start of the last ice age - more than 100,000 years ago.”
Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=peru-uses-climate-twist-to-lure-tourism-glacier
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