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Chile’s salmon-farming industry, a major driver of the economy, has lashed out at new rules restricting its operation in protected areas, but environmental groups say the change is necessary, given the industry’s history of environmental violations. The new rules are laid out in a memorandum issued in October by Chile’s Ministry of the Environment, as […]
By Meritxell Freixas and Iñaki Martinez Azpiroz Santiago, Feb 10 (EFE).- The plantations of pine and eucalyptus that cover large swathes of southern Chile embody the so-called Chilean forestry model – promoted by the Pinochet dictatorship – and have fueled the ongoing wildfires blamed as of Friday for 24 deaths and the destruction of more …