Conservation

Photos: Katrina Pyne for Hakai Magazine

Editors's note: This story and video were originally published in Hakai Magazine, a publication in Canada that explores science, society and the environment from a coastal perspective. 

In Patagonia, seabirds and artisanal hake fishers have a long-established relationship. Industrial fishers, not so much—and it’s not good for the birds.

By Katrina Pyne and Jude Isabella

Reciprocity is a practice ingrained in balance, seen across many cultures over millennia, and often associated with respect and sustainability. “Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever,” says author Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book Braiding Sweetgrass.

Photo: Andres Amengual

Puelo Patagonia, press release, July 20, 2021 - With a massive call to support the request to legally declare the Puelo River a water reserve, the community of Puelo and Cochamó launched today the campaign #PueloReservadeAgua (#PueloWaterReserve). This initiative seeks to collect 40,000 signatures via the website www.pueloreservadeagua.cl, in order to send a letter to President Sebastián Piñera, asking him to give urgency to the neighbors' request to reserve the Puelo River for nature conservation and local development.