{"id":10789,"date":"2015-10-07T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginaisladepascua.com\/en\/?p=10789"},"modified":"2021-09-15T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:48:43","slug":"the-resilience-of-easter-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imaginarapanui.com\/en\/the-resilience-of-easter-island\/","title":{"rendered":"The Resilience of Easter Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for the megalithic statues called moai. It is assumed that deforestation of the island by the Rapa Nui led to a cultural collapse. A brief period of prosperity was followed by a long period of chaos due to the misuse of natural resources to transport the spectacular moai.<\/p>\n

When the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen visited the island in 1722, the Rapa Nui would have been hungry thieves, prostitutes and cannibals. Easter Island became an example to environmentalists as a warning for the entire planet. However, recent research suggested that the introduction of the Polynesian rat was the reason for deforestation.<\/p>\n

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