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Illegal logging threatens ancient Guaitecas cypress in Chilean reserve

The National Forestry Corporation (Conaf) filed a complaint with the Cochrane Prosecutor's Office for the illegal cutting of Guaitecas cypresses and other native species in the Katalalixar National Reserve, in …

Magdalena Lisboa: The Forestry Engineer Leading a Unique Global Project from Arauco

From the province of Arauco, Magdalena Lisboa is setting a milestone in national forestry. A forestry engineer and daughter of one of Chile’s first generations of professionals in the field, …

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 …