Climbers open first Chilean route on Cerro Catedral, Torres del Paine

Monday, 11 April 2022 00:00 Mountaineering
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Cristobal and Juan Señoret at the summit of Cerro Catedral, Torres del Paine. Photo: Señoret BrothersCristobal and Juan Señoret at the summit of Cerro Catedral, Torres del Paine. Photo: Señoret Brothers
 
 
By Antonia González
Translation by Patrick Nixon
 
Chilean brothers Juan and Cristobal Señoret have opened the first Chilean route on the north face of Cerro Catedral in Torres del Paine National Park, which they have named the "Dos Hermanos" (Two Brothers), with a grade of 5.11+ A0 800m.
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Chile launches a national nature fund

Tuesday, 05 April 2022 18:13 Conservation
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Chile’s environmment minister, Maisa Rojas, speaking at the launch event on April 4 in Santiago. Photo: Fondo NaturalezaChile’s environmment minister, Maisa Rojas, speaking at the launch event on April 4 in Santiago. Photo: Fondo Naturaleza

 
By Caterinna Giovannini 
 
Chile's minister of the environment, Maisa Rojas, together with organizations such as Oceana, WWF, WCS Chile and CONAF, yesterday launched the Chile Nature Fund (Fondo Naturaleza Chile) in Santiago.
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Aysen organizations denounce mega real estate projects in Patagonia

Monday, 04 April 2022 12:35 Environment
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Photo: Geute Conservation Photo: Geute Conservation
 
 
By Patricio Segura
Translation by Dawn Penso
 
In a complaint filed with the Regional Office of the Environmental Superintendency (SMA), social and environmental organizations in the Aysen region of Chilean Patagonia are denouncing that mega subdivisional real estate properties planned for the region must first seek approval via the country's environmental impact system process (SEIA).
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Adriana Hoffmann, pioneering Chilean environmental leader and botanist, dies

Monday, 21 March 2022 16:30 Environment
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By Jimmy Langman
 
Adriana Hoffmann, the pioneering environmentalist in Chile who the United Nations honored as one of the 25 leading environmentalists in the world during the 1990s, died on Sunday. She was 82.
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Saving Valdivia’s wetlands: An interview with Fundacion Plantae

Friday, 11 March 2022 00:00 Environment
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Photo: Marcelo CárcamoPhoto: Marcelo Cárcamo
 
 
By Antonia González

The city of Valdivia, located in the Los Ríos Region of Chile, has more than 10,000 hectares (almost 25,000 acres) of wetlands, making it the city with the second-most urban wetlands in the country, after Coronel, in the Biobío Region. This extensive network, which is mostly found in the southern part of the city at the confluence of the Cruces, Calle Calle and Valdivia rivers, are riverside wetlands, marshes and swamp forests.

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