Writing Exercise: The easter Island This article states the effects of the Moai statues in the Easter Island, one of the most isoleted places in the world. The Moai are monolithic statues of human figures. They were made of volcanic rocks and located around the island. In these days the Moai are a great source, becouse they have a lot of visits from the tourist, but for the other hand, they were the responsables for the decline of the civilization in the island. The reasons are mainly consequences of building the statues. The people from Easter Island start to using all the natural resources, specifically of the island’s forest. Moving a Moai was hard because they where very weigh, some of them had eighty tons. Moving to, requiring wooden tracks equipped with long rollers, so, the Islanders start to cut all the island’s trees only for move the status across the island. The construction continued for many centuries and the deforestation start to destoy the eco-system on the Island. The birds stopped coming to Easter Island, the fishing industry collapsed and the lack of trees made it difficult to even grown food. The consecuences were a population in decline, only two thousand people remained when European explorers first reached Easter Island in the eighteen century. The history suggest that the population descended into cannibalism and worse over the years.