Conservation

 



Jaguars re-inhabit Argentina’s Ibera wetlands after a 70-year absence

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 Mariua and cubs in Iberá. Photo: Tompkins ConservationMariua and cubs in Iberá. Photo: Tompkins Conservation

 
By Caterinna del Rio Giovannini
 
Two years after the creation of Gran Iberá Park, located in northern Argentina on the border with Paraguay, Mariua, an adult female jaguar (Panthera onca) and her two cubs, Karai and Porá, only 4-months-old, became the first of their species to set foot in Corrientes province after nearly 70 years of absence.
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Corporacion Alerce launches new infographic about world's second-oldest tree

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Restoring the Darwin's rhea to the Patagonian steppe

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Photo: Tompkins ConservationPhoto: Tompkins Conservation
 
By Caterinna del Río Giovannini

It is easy to misinterpret the conservation status of the Darwin’s rhea (Rhea pennata), a species that inhabits the wide and extensive Patagonian steppe of southern Chile and Argentina.

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The San Pedro River and the sacred basin

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Kayakers at Salto La Leona, Fuy River. Photo: Salomé CandelaKayakers at Salto La Leona, Fuy River. Photo: Salomé Candela 
 
 
By Paulo Urrutia
Translated by Andy Ford
 
Our perception of reality is nothing more than the way in which we have constructed different kinds of lenses for observing it, based on experience with our environment. In order to understand what Río Sagrado (Sacred River) meant, we must be willing to change some of its pieces. It was a 7-day kayak expedition of 200 kilometers that lead us to the heart of Mapuche territory.
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Somos Cuenca: bringing people together to restore and protect rivers

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 Valle Colorado. Photo: Ximena SalazarValle Colorado. Photo: Ximena Salazar
 
 
By Paula Fernández
Translation by Patrick Nixon
 
The Maipo River Basin is probably one of the most productive in Chile and has for centuries been bearing the weight of human activity. It has become the main water source for Santiago, the capital and population hub of the country. Perhaps then it is no coincidence that this is precisely where the Bestias del Sur Salvaje (Beasts of the Wild South) collective has chosen to develop the first stage of its project "Somos Cuenca" (We are a River Basin), a collaborative network that seeks to connect and support the different river basin conservation projects in Chile.
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