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Acoforag Warns That Lack of Security and Incentives Is Holding Back the Forestry Sector in Chile

SAG raises alert after detecting quarantine pest in regional forestry area

The Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) of the Biobío region established a quarantine zone after detecting the presence of the pine bark weevil in forestry plantations in Los Ángeles. This …

Attack in Ercilla: Worker Injured and Machinery Set on Fire

In a serious incident this morning in the commune of Ercilla, La Araucanía Region, a forestry worker was shot and injured, and several pieces of machinery were burned in an …

Environmental Backsliding, by Julio Torres

By Julio Torres, academic at the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Nature Conservation of the University of ChileIt is not unusual for environmental activism to use alarmist rhetoric to argue …

Weapons and ammunition seized during operation in rural area of Ercilla

PDI personnel managed to seize weapons and ammunition in a rural area of Ercilla, in the La Araucanía region.According to information from Radio Bío Bío, the operation took place in …

Innovation in Wood for the Fashion Industry

The environmental situation stemming from the textile industry is alarming. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, every second, an amount of clothing equivalent to a garbage truck is burned or …