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Written by Adrienne Lee
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 |
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The exotic biological invaders may have met their match
With its pert face and furry coat, the slender mink looks like a charming pet. But beneath the sweet facade lies an opportunistic predator that has become a menace to biodiversity in the southern parts of Chile. 
Young Huillín. Photo by "Visor Austral" José Luis Bartheld (flickr)
Introduced in South America in the 1930s for the purpose of commercial fur production, the mink is one of the most ruthless invasive species that has ever attacked Chile. It has a voracious appetite for bird eggs, adult birds of many species and their young, rodents, fish, crustaceans, insects and amphibians, including many that are unique to Chile.
Widely distributed throughout Patagonia, the small predator has even invaded islands off the coast of the mainland. |
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Written by Andrew Dornon
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 |
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Government to initiate huge development project in southern Chile
The newly announced Araucanía Plan seeks to build a huge reservoir in the rainiest region of the country that will hold almost 200 million cubic liters of water, as well as a port for international freight. The plan also seeks to improve irrigation and road infrastructure in the Araucanía Region (Region IX). A detailed plan for the development project is set to be unveiled by President Sebastián Piñera on Wednesday. |
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Written by Mercopress
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 |
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Punta Arenas, in the extreme south of Chile and seat of the country’s Antarctic Institute, is expected to soon have a new complex that will include the Institute’s offices, research laboratories and a museum dedicated to Chile’s strong and long presence in Antarctica.
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Written by Lindsay Fendt
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
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Fly fishing industry imperilled, local government to meet Tuesday to discuss Didymo
In February, Chris Spelius, owner of the adventure travel company Expediciones Chile, was standing out by the Futaleufu River in Southern Chile waiting for a client, when he looked into the normally clear water and noticed something unusual. Sebastián Alvarez, Expediciones Chile
“I saw what looked like ground-up toilet paper in the water,” Spelius recalled to the Santiago Times this week. “I have been here for 24 years and I knew I had never seen this before.”
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Written by Elizabeth Osborne
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 |
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Chile’s new center-right government confirmed this week that its indigenous policy will be directed more towards helping urban Mapuches find productive work and development, and much less on the acquisition of contested rural properties and their redistribution to Mapuche communities. The new policy represents a sharp break with the land redistribution policies that were initiated under previous center-left governments. |
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Written by Benjamin Schneider
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 |
Large fishing companies upset with demand for change made by Lota Protein
The Norwegian company Lota Protein is looking to use legal action to change the quota system that new regulates Chile’s fishing industry, when the 10-year policy called the Law of Ship-owner Maximum Capture Quotas (LCMA) expires in 2012.
Currently, every fishing company has a maximum quantity of fish that they can take out of the water. Economist Eduardo Bitrán told local media that although the law allows the transfer of quotas, “in practice, a market to buy and sell quotas has not formed.”
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