Environmental Woes of Tierra del Fuego -- Development

Piles of garbage sit in a suburban yard below Ushuaia's Mount Olivia. Provincial environmental laws passed as recently as 1992 attempt to control various aspects of local pollution. Local student researchers, however, acknowledge a "widely generalized and undesirable tendency in the population" to illegally dump garbage. "There exists a serious problem in this respect," they state, "above all in damage to tourism development."

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Piles of garbage sit in a suburban yard below Ushuaia's Mount Olivia. Provincial environmental laws passed as recently as 1992 attempt to control various aspects of local pollution. Local student researchers, however, acknowledge a "widely generalized and undesirable tendency in the population" to illegally dump garbage. "There exists a serious problem in this respect," they state, "above all in damage to tourism development."