Feb 3, 2020 | Chile News, Photos & Video, Chile-All, Featured, Forests, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
Photo: Salvaged bed frame during Chile’s 2017 devastating fires. Photo: Langelle The Lumaco district of Chile is dominated by Mapuche communities, 60% of which live in poverty due to the theft of their land for industrial tree plantations under the Pinochet...
Jan 31, 2017 | Chile 2017, Chile-All, Featured, Forests, No GE Trees News, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, Videos
The wildfires in Chile that killed at least 11 people have been fueled by plantations of non-indigenous forests, such as eucalyptus and pine, according to biologists. “About 42% of the forest fires are in plantation forests, which are like matchboxes,” Mary Kalin...