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Chile: Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Score: 69

"This delicate cultural landscape would greatly suffer from the introduction of casino gambling to the islands as proposed in the past year.Its remoteness is one reason Easter Island is relatively well preserved."

"Active and sympathetic dialogue between native (Polynesian) Rapa Nui people and continental Chilean authorities. Settlement and squatting should not be expanded too much farther over the large areas of culturally and archaeologically significant landscapes."

"Given that the terrestrial environment was destroyed a long time ago, this is not as great a concern as maintaining the cultural artifacts."

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