Conservation and Development
The Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (IHAH) obtained 1.09 km² of land in 1997 to create an archaeological park. The intent of the park is to develop tourism infrastructure as well as benefit rural Honduran communities around the settlement. In 2005 the IHAH contracted with an outside firm to develop a management plan for Cerro Palenque. The consultants wrote an unrealistic plan that called for a 10 year development program with a cost of more than $6,000,000. A link to that plan, in Spanish, is included in the references below (see "Plan de Manejo").
In 2007 the IHAH proposed a project that would develop a visitor's center and interpretive panels for Cerro Palenque, and is in the process of seeking funds to develop this park. The 2009 coup in Honduras stopped these efforts.
Read more about this topic: Cerro Palenque
Famous quotes containing the words conservation and/or development:
“A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.”
—Aristide Briand (1862–1932)
“If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp.... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)