Users of social networks do not waste a good landscape to take a photo.
This can be a danger to nature, something that the authorities of the city of Lake Elsinore in California They have learned “the hard way”.
In 2019, the area known as Walker Canyon it was the scene of a super bloom of poppies, prompting a wave of people eager to take photos with the scenery.
We are talking about up to 100,000 people looking to take photos with the beautiful orange poppies.
The number of visitors caused damage to the environment. “They trampled on the very habitat that they said they appreciated and pretended to enjoy,” reflected Mayor Natasha Johnson.
Visitors also uprooted the poppies, posed on them, posed nude, sat on them to smoke, or even promoted products while taking advantage of the view.
Also a traffic police officer died directing the traffic that the attraction visited.
No a los influencers
That is why this 2023 the policemen of Lago Elsinore will have “zero tolerance” for visitors who invade the poppy fields or park on the road to see them.
The consequences could go as far as an arrest, authorities warned.
Nonetheless. We will not be surprised to see these poppy fields in TikTok o Instagram.
