Conservation

Tourism reserve flows: A necessity for river conservation

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:34 Conservation

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.

Why rivers need permanent protection

Sunday, 08 January 2017 16:44 Conservation

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.

Infographic: Rivers of Chile under threat

Tuesday, 29 November 2016 08:59 Conservation

Chile’s threatened rivers

Tuesday, 29 November 2016 08:20 Conservation

Photo: 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.

Time to protect the Futaleufu and Cordillera Sarmiento

Sunday, 07 August 2016 16:56 Conservation

By Don Weeden, Jack Miller and Camilo Rada

Editors note: The following is from Edition 11.

We don’t need to tell the readers of Patagon Journal that Chile is blessed with an abundance of extraordinary natural places. Fortunately, many such places are protected as national parks, or as nature sanctuaries (Pumalin Park is the best known example).

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