Prosecutors in Brazil have blocked a decision to authorize the installment of ziplines at Rio de Janeiro's iconic Sugarloaf Mountain, claiming they will damage the environment around one of the United Nations world’s heritage sites.
June 2, 2023, 9:16 PMFILE - Sugarloaf mountain and the Guanabara Bay are seen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8, 2016. Brazils federal prosecutors blocked a decision on Thursday, June 1, 2023, to authorize the installment of ziplines at Rio de Janeiros world-famous Sugarloaf Mountain, claiming they will damage the environment around one of the United Nations worlds heritage sites.
Sugarloaf — known in Portuguese as Pao de Açucar — juts out of the earth at the entrance to Rio’s bay. The U.N. agency named it aalong with Rio’s other marquee mountains and, years earlier, Brazil’s heritage institute designated it a national monument. The zipline's four steel lines would run 755 meters over the forest between Sugarloaf and Urca Hill, and riders would reach speeds of 100 kph . Inauguration was scheduled for the second half of this year, and an online petition to halt work was signed by almost 11,000 people.
Prosecutors acted after a public interest civil action lawsuit filed by Brazilian citizens required halting construction at Sugarloaf in order to protect the environment and its historical and cultural heritage. Federal prosecutors also found that the zipline construction “altered the land’s natural outline due to the rock’s demolition and drilling”.
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