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RE: Chile has officially created 5 new national parks and expanded three previous ones in a move that protects over 10 million acres of land!
this is interesting to me for good and bad reasons: the first is that it
looks like they are creating a 17-park contiguous land corridor, which
drastically increases the positive ecological impact of any given area.
but second i'm concerned that they mean to over-rest the land and
restrict appropriate grazing. Allan Savory worked with Patagonian ranchers to reverse
desertification I hope land managers will (continue to) apply holistic
management to the conservation effort, otherwise the over-rest will
result in further ecological deterioration, not "protection.
Thanks for leaving a good comment, @kouba01! I was not aware of the issues with desertification in the Patagonia. But you are absolutely right; I hope they also have this in mind when taking care of the national park. Chile has so far seemed like a country that is taking its conservation efforts seriously, so I would expect them to have a long-term plan for the national parks that also includes these problems.