The Selk’nam were almost wiped out by colonisers in the 19th century, and for years their existence was denied. Now they hope to finally claim their rights as one of Chile’s original peoples
A forest fire that has been spreading for weeks in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego is threatening the ancestral land of an Indigenous group and destroying some of the world’s highest concentration of peatlands. The fires, which started in mid-January, have burned approximately 1,250 hectares (nearly 3,100 acres) of forest, peatland and grassland in the municipality […]