SANTIAGO – With the purpose of taking students from different regional establishments on educational activities, the Environment Ministry along with Sendero de Chile foundation, built up a program called “Biodiversity, Education and Public Participation”. Its first version began in November last year and has just finished. The program included guided visits to natural areas for [...]
SANTIAGO – Following the advice of a number of ecological organizations, the Chilean government wants to reduce the number of sea lions living in the country’s coastal waters. South American sea lions feed off of fish, snails and crabs, and have been blamed for a recent crisis in the Chilean fishing industry. Although sea lions [...]
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SANTIAGO- As the hot summer continues in Chile, fires continue to burn, with serious warnings in the Valparaíso and O’Higgins regions, while fires in the Torres del Paine national park have reignited. Top officials met on Sunday February 5th in order to prepare battle plans for the current fires. After a coordination meeting of the fight against the [...]
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PUNTA ARENAS – On Wednesday afternoon, the forest fires that have destroyed approximately 16,000 acres of Torres del Paine National Park since December once again burst back into life. The fires were fed by strong winds that reached 100 kilometers per hour and have affected the region since last Saturday. The reactivation, reported in the [...]
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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA – According to a new study released on January 27, 2012 by Duke University, 80% of the endangered species and habitats in the Andes region are not only being threatened, but are currently completely unprotected. With ceaseless destruction of land for oil and gold mining, animals are simply running out of space to [...]
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The age old tradition of trawling our oceans for fish has become considerably easier with the help of state-of-the-art sonar technology. This type of modern fishing can pin-point schools of fish quickly and accurately and while this may have been helpful initially, it is now time to deal with the consequences. From 2000 to 2010, Chile landed [...]
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by Michael A. O’Neill I remember the first time I heard about hiking in Torres del Paine National Park. I knew nothing about Patagonia except that it was pretty far south, but as soon as I learned about Paine I decided that one day I would hike in Chile and see the sun rise against those [...]
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CHACAYES – Patricio Silva was invited to the ProPyme ceremony this month to deliver a speech on his experiences as an environmental entrepreneur. Silva started a small plant nursery a few years ago in his home town of Chacayes in the foothills of the Andes. Soon after he began taking on small projects from the Pacific Hydro company, [...]
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BUIN – After seven months of gestation, one of the Buin Zoo’s two pigmy hippopotamuses (Hexaprotod Lothadamensis) named “Coca” gave birth to a healthy baby male. This yet unnamed baby was separated from his father “Hipólito” so he can remain at his mother’s side, and also to give Coca some much-needed peace until the baby [...]
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COYAHIQUE- The Court of Appeal in Coyahique has rejected a bid by energy company Energía Austral to have an injunction against them. The stay-of-action order was declared on January 9th and has stalled the Environmental Evaluation Committee vote on the Rio Cuero project. The injunction was brought before the court by representatives from across the [...]
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