OLCA has created a video series about the conflict that the town of El Durazno, Chile sustained while defending its territory against the Ministry of Public Works – MOP, which seeks to carry out plans to create a… Read More

This week’s Earth Watch guest is Felipe Grez Moreno, Psychologist of the University of Chile. Felipe was part of an international contingent, along with the campaign to STOP GE Trees, that researched the impacts of tree plantations and potential… Read More

Symbolic Chilean flag flies in a pine plantation. Photo by Orin Langelle A photo essay by Orin Langelle on the damaging impacts of Chilean wildfires was recently published in Spanish by PuroChamuyo.com. Langelle, Strategic Communications Director for Global… Read More

For Immediate Release   Concepción, Chile – Yesterday, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) 2017 Tree Biotechnology Conference was forced to cancel its field trip to the University of Concepción’s Center for Biotechnology amidst protests on campus… Read More