Conservation

 

Restoring the Darwin's rhea at the future Patagonia National Park

Friday, 28 April 2017 12:44 Conservation
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Photo: Justin LotakPhoto: Justin Lotak

 

By Cristián Saucedo 
Translation by Brent Harlow
 
Three years ago, Conservación Patagónica began its Darwin’s Rhea Conservation Program with the construction of a breeding center and the installation of park rangers to patrol, take censuses, and set up camera traps to monitor wild Darwin’s rheas and identify threats to their survival.
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Tourism reserve flows: A necessity for river conservation

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:34 Conservation
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By Juan Carlos Cuchacovich 
 
Editors Note: The following is from Issue 12.
 
Chile’s Water Code, issued in 1981, created a regulatory instrument that established entirely a neoliberal economic policy. These water regulations permitted perpetual, tradable water claims to be assigned via the market. This touched off a race that resulted in the assignment of the majority of rivers to whomever presented the corresponding requests, and the spoils were distributed without consideration for the environment, geopolitics, public health, or equity.
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Why rivers need permanent protection

Sunday, 08 January 2017 16:44 Conservation
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By Monti Aguirre
 
Editors Note: The following is from Issue 12.
 
Not everyone knows that the rise of modern environmental legislation started with a river – several of them, in fact.  
 
In the 1960s, after decades of rampant dam-building in the United States, the country’s waterways were suffering. Anglers found fish were becoming scarce in streams that had once been thick with them. Hunters found wildlife increasingly thin on the ground. Rafters found that rapids had been swallowed up by reservoirs, and the West’s great wild rivers had been transformed into stairsteps of stagnant water.
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Infographic: Rivers of Chile under threat

Tuesday, 29 November 2016 08:59 Conservation
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Chile’s threatened rivers

Tuesday, 29 November 2016 08:20 Conservation
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Photo: Baker River. Jimmy Langman/Patagon JournalPhoto: Baker River. Jimmy Langman/Patagon Journal
 
 
By Nathalie Joignant

Editors Note: The following is from Issue 12.
 
Rivers and wetlands are the veins that carry our lifeblood. Simply put, they allow our existence. In addition to water they provide countless environmental services to humans and other species, among them: food, biodiversity habitat, fibers, medicinal material, fodder for livestock, irrigation for food crops in adjacent lands, construction materials, spaces for recreation and spiritual development, and flood control. People have historically settled along their banks, ranging from small towns to big cities. But today, due to corporate greed and government irresponsibility, many rivers are drying up or under imminent threat.
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