{"id":3933,"date":"2008-04-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:47:33","slug":"preservando-la-patagonia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/amchamchile.cl\/en\/noticia\/preservando-la-patagonia\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:es-->Preservando la Patagonia<!--:--><!--:en-->Preserving Patagonia<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cEl margen para la vida aqu\u00ed es tan fr\u00e1gil como lo fuerte que es el viento\u201d, proclama el actor brit\u00e1nico Jeremy Irons al comienzo de <EM>Eden at the End of the World [El Ed\u00e9n al Final del Mundo<\/EM>], una nueva serie documental de televisi\u00f3n sobre la Patagonia producida por National Geographic para el servicio de televisi\u00f3n p\u00fablica de Estados Unidos.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Con su voz, Irons podr\u00eda derretir al coraz\u00f3n m\u00e1s duro, eso es claro. Pero est\u00e1 en lo cierto cuando advierte que la vida silvestre de la Patagonia enfrenta una constante batalla por la sobrevivencia y no s\u00f3lo en contra de los elementos o de los depredadores, sino que tambi\u00e9n en contra del hombre.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">La Patagonia puede estar muy distante, pero sus habitantes silvestres son acechados por peligros que van desde la extinci\u00f3n de \u00e1reas de pastoreo debido al pastoreo excesivo de ovejas hasta la tala de sus bosques. \u201cSi vamos a crear \u00e1reas protegidas, mejor lo hacemos dentro de los pr\u00f3ximos cinco a diez a\u00f1os\u201d, se\u00f1ala Claudio Campagna, bi\u00f3logo que estudia elefantes marinos en Argentina para la Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), entidad que tiene sede en Nueva York.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Y eso es precisamente lo que ha ocurrido en otra parte de la Patagonia -en el lado chileno de la gran isla de Tierra del Fuego- donde, en el 2004, el banco de inversi\u00f3n Goldman Sachs don\u00f3 un terreno de unas 270.000 hect\u00e1reas a la WCS para su conservaci\u00f3n.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">El resultado fue Karukinka, una reserva que contiene las muestras m\u00e1s australes del mundo de bosque nativo y una de sus mayores extensiones de turberas. Fue producto de una alianza con la WCS, que National Geographic hizo su programa sobre la Patagonia, el que tambi\u00e9n recibi\u00f3 respaldo financiero de Goldman Sachs. \u201cQuer\u00edamos tener un registro visual de lo que ocurre en Karukinka y\u2026 para la gente que nunca ha estado ah\u00ed logre percibir lo particular de su paisaje\u201d, se\u00f1ala el presidente y gerente general de la WCS, Steven Sanderson.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">No obstante, no es s\u00f3lo el paisaje lo que es \u00fanico en Karukinka. As\u00ed tambi\u00e9n -al menos en Am\u00e9rica Latina- es la forma en que est\u00e1 siendo conservada a trav\u00e9s de una alianza entre empresas y una ONG. \u201cPara nosotros, esta pel\u00edcula es una forma de crear m\u00e1s conciencia entre las personas sobre las oportunidades que tienen las empresas de colaborar con organizaciones ambientales y de hacer cosas importantes\u201d, sostiene Mark Tercek, titular de Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">En una regi\u00f3n que a\u00fan entrega s\u00f3lo un precario marco legal para la conservaci\u00f3n privada de tierras, la WCS y Goldman Sachs esperan que Karukinka sirva como un modelo para otros. O, en palabras de Jeremy Irons, que \u201cse\u00f1ale el camino hacia un futuro de esperanza\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: small\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: small\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: small\"><STRONG>M\u00e1s que Dinero<\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><STRONG><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">En t\u00e9rminos financieros, el camino de Karukinka hacia el futuro es bastante seguro. Adem\u00e1s de donar el terreno, Goldman Sachs tambi\u00e9n entreg\u00f3 para partir US$1,5 millones con el fin de ayudar a la reserva durante sus tres primeros a\u00f1os y despu\u00e9s de eso entreg\u00f3 una donaci\u00f3n que, junto con fondos recaudados por la WCS, asegurar\u00e1n la sustentabilidad financiera de Karukinka a perpetuidad, afirma Sanderson.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Una peque\u00f1a cantidad adicional de ingresos se generar\u00e1 a partir de actividades tur\u00edsticas de bajo impacto, tales como trekking -para lo cual se est\u00e1n haciendo los senderos gradualmente- y algo de pesca. M\u00e1s a futuro, tambi\u00e9n hay planes de permitir que pasajeros de cruceros desembarquen en botes Zodiac para visitar parte de la reserva.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Pero un innovador proyecto de este tipo requiere ser sustentable en t\u00e9rminos sociales adem\u00e1s de financieros o, dicho de otra forma, contar con la aceptaci\u00f3n de la comunidad en la que opera. Tanto para la WCS como para Goldman Sachs, conseguir esa aceptaci\u00f3n fue uno de sus objetivos clave desde el comienzo.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Tierra del Fuego puede ser el lugar m\u00e1s remoto de Chile, pero \u2013al no estar lejos de tres peque\u00f1as islas sobre las que Chile y Argentina casi fueron a guerra a fines de la d\u00e9cada de los setenta- es un lugar delicado en t\u00e9rminos geopol\u00edticos y, debido a que la conservaci\u00f3n privada de tierras a\u00fan es un fen\u00f3meno poco com\u00fan, f\u00e1cilmente puede despertar sospechas. M\u00e1s a\u00fan, si bien la WCS ha trabajado en Chile por cerca de 40 a\u00f1os, ha estado comprometida en proyectos de bajo perfil y no era muy conocida a nivel local en el 2004.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Una medida clave en la apuesta de Karukinka para asegurar la aceptaci\u00f3n fue crear un consejo asesor que incluyera a cient\u00edficos y empresarios locales. Y, adem\u00e1s de abrir la reserva a universidades chilenas para proyectos de investigaci\u00f3n, ofrece una serie de becas para que estudiantes locales realicen sus tesis de pre y posgrado ah\u00ed.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Pero la sustentabilidad de la reserva -y el \u201cfuturo de esperanza\u201d de Jeremy Irons- tambi\u00e9n depende de hacer retroceder el reloj y restituirlo a su estado original. Esto no es cuesti\u00f3n de mera nostalgia, sino que surge por la destrucci\u00f3n causada por una especie no nativa del \u00e1rea: el castor.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Introducido a la isla en la d\u00e9cada de los 40 en una apuesta por establecer un industria de comercializaci\u00f3n de pieles, el castor prolifer\u00f3 en ausencia de depredadores naturales. Ahora se estima que hay unos 100.000 en Tierra del Fuego, se\u00f1ala Sanderson, y que varios miles cruzaron el Estrecho de Magallanes hacia el continente, presentando una amenaza para la industria forestal ah\u00ed.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">En <EM>Eden at the End of the World<\/EM>, las vistas a\u00e9reas de canales bloqueados ilustran el da\u00f1o que generan los castores botando \u00e1rboles y haciendo represas en los r\u00edos. De hecho, como resultado de su creciente n\u00famero y laboriosidad, grandes \u00e1reas de Karukinka que alguna vez estuvieron cubiertas por bosques de lenga, una especie de haya que s\u00f3lo se da en el sur de Chile y Argentina, ahora est\u00e1n bajo el agua.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Como parte de sus esfuerzos por restituir el estado natural de la reserva, Karukinka tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 permitiendo que antiguos caminos de conexi\u00f3n se deterioren de modo que el acceso al bosque sea m\u00e1s limitado. Tambi\u00e9n se manejar\u00e1 la poblaci\u00f3n de guanacos -pariente sudamericano del camello- de modo facilitar la regeneraci\u00f3n natural del bosque.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Despu\u00e9s de todo, son esos bosques de lenga los que protegen parte de la diversidad que la bi\u00f3loga B\u00e1rbara Saavedra, coordinadora chilena de la WCS, identifica como la caracter\u00edstica m\u00e1s sobresaliente de Karukinka. Buscando larvas entre estos \u00e1rboles, por ejemplo, hay p\u00e1jaros carpinteros magall\u00e1nicos -de cabeza roja- y un raro halc\u00f3n chileno que reci\u00e9n se est\u00e1 comenzando a estudiar.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: small\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: small\"><STRONG>Lecciones Compartidas<\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Goldman Sachs \u201ctropez\u00f3\u201d con Karukinka -que antes fuera el emplazamiento de un fallido proyecto de tala de \u00e1rboles- cuando la adquiri\u00f3 en el curso de su negocio normal como parte de un paquete de atribulados activos, recuerda Tercek. Pero la propiedad termin\u00f3 teniendo un impacto totalmente inesperado sobre el banco de inversi\u00f3n.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cA medida que trat\u00e1bamos de ver c\u00f3mo manejarla de la forma correcta y hablamos con personas en la comunidad conservacionista, organizaciones de medio ambiente y acad\u00e9micos, nos dimos cuenta de cu\u00e1nto podr\u00edamos aprender de ellos, incluso de los activistas que, como sabe, son considerados problem\u00e1ticos\u201d, sostiene. \u201cNos desafiaron a adaptar las capacidades de nuestra empresa a los problemas ambientales\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">La adquisici\u00f3n accidental fue, de hecho, el catalizador para la decisi\u00f3n de Goldman Sachs de elaborar la pol\u00edtica ambiental que anunci\u00f3 en el 2005 cuando tales empresas a\u00fan eran inusuales entre las firmas de Wall Street. Guiado por su pol\u00edtica, el banco de inversi\u00f3n pretende lograr buenos resultados ambientales al tiempo que tambi\u00e9n entrega buenos rendimientos comerciales a sus accionistas, afirma Tercek.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Un hito para esa pol\u00edtica fue la compra en el 2007 por parte de Goldman Sachs -con dos de las m\u00e1s grandes firmas de capital privado de Estados Unidos- de TXU. importante generadora el\u00e9ctrica de Texas. TXU era el enemigo p\u00fablico n\u00famero 1, rememora Tercek, pero Goldman Sachs pens\u00f3 que hab\u00eda una forma de hacer el negocio desde \u201cun punto de vista ambiental propio, positivo, progresista y bien informado\u201d y como resultado se logr\u00f3 que TXU redujera de 11 a 3 sus previstas centrales el\u00e9ctricas a carb\u00f3n.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Pero, adem\u00e1s de aprender de su experiencia, los socios en Karukinka tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1n compartiendo la lecci\u00f3n con otros. Tanto Sanderson como Tercek participaron recientemente en un seminario en Santiago, organizado por el Centro de Estudios P\u00fablicos, sobre el posible rol del sector privado en la conservaci\u00f3n de tierras, tema sobre el que hay un creciente inter\u00e9s, que se ha generado en parte por proyectos como la nueva reserva.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Adem\u00e1s de la falta de un marco legal claro, Am\u00e9rica Latina, en general, a\u00fan carece de los incentivos tributarios para la conservaci\u00f3n privada de tierras que existen en muchas naciones industrializadas. Sin embargo, algunos pa\u00edses, incluido Chile, ya est\u00e1n analizando la posibilidad de crear un sistema de derechos de servidumbre para la conservaci\u00f3n como los que hay en Estados Unidos y que permiten a los terratenientes celebrar un acuerdo legal vinculante para conservar parte o la totalidad de una propiedad y, a cambio, calificar para una reducci\u00f3n de impuestos.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Otros ejemplos del aporte que Karukinka puede hacer son m\u00e1s comunes. Por ejemplo, est\u00e1 colaborando con el Ministerio de Obras P\u00fablicas de Chile en un estudio piloto para minimizar el impacto ambiental de los caminos rurales a trav\u00e9s de medidas simples como la eliminaci\u00f3n de los canales de desag\u00fce abiertos y la reforestaci\u00f3n de las talas hechas para los nuevos caminos.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Sin embargo, adem\u00e1s de ayudar a construir caminos, tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 construyendo nuevos puentes. Chile y Argentina han reconocido ampliamente la amenaza impuesta por los castores y se dieron cuenta de que ninguno de los dos pa\u00edses por s\u00ed solo pod\u00eda abordar el problema de manera exitosa, sino que los avances eran limitados.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Ahora, tras un taller organizado por la WCS y el Servicio Agr\u00edcola y Ganadero (SAG) de Chile en diciembre del 2006, se estableci\u00f3 un comit\u00e9 binacional, que re\u00fane a la WCS y a las autoridades chilenas con autoridades federales y locales de Argentina para aunar recursos y encontrar soluciones efectivas.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cNo s\u00f3lo en Karukinka, sino que alrededor del mundo, una de las cosas que hemos concluido es que la conservaci\u00f3n funciona como buena diplomacia de baja tensi\u00f3n\u201d, comenta Sanderson. \u201cTrabajamos en una serie de \u00e1reas transfronterizas en parte porque vemos cosas como especies ex\u00f3ticas, enfermedades o migraciones cruzan las fronteras\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">De hecho, los animales no saben nada de fronteras tal como demostr\u00f3 triunfante una elefanta marina rastreada por sat\u00e9lite, que monitorea la WCS, con un extraordinario viaje de ocho meses desde Pen\u00ednsula Vald\u00e9s en Argentina, hasta las Islas Malvinas, bordeando el Cabo de Hornos hasta Karukinka y luego de vuelta hacia el Estrecho de Magallanes. Es \u201cuna tremenda embajadora\u201d, asevera Sanderson.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><STRONG>Ruth Bradley<\/STRONG> es la editora general de <STRONG>bUSiness CHILE<\/STRONG> adem\u00e1s de corresponsal en Santiago para The Economist.<\/P><!--:--><!--:en--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<b><I>A new documentary, just released on American television, highlights the work of a pioneering project in Chile, developed by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Goldman Sachs, in pointing the way to the preservation of Patagonia\u2019s beautiful but fragile ecosystems. <\/b><\/I><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe margin for life here is as thin as the wind is sharp,\u201d proclaims British actor Jeremy Irons at the start of <I>Eden at the End of the World<\/I>, a new television documentary about Patagonia produced by National Geographic for the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service.<\/p>\n<p>With his voice, Irons could, of course, melt the hardest heart. But he is right when he warns that the wildlife of Patagonia faces a constant battle for survival &#8211; and not only against the elements or predators, but also against man. <\/p>\n<p>Patagonia may be remote but its wildlife habitats are threatened by perils that range from overgrazing by sheep to the logging of its forests. \u201cIf we&#8217;re going to create protected areas, we&#8217;d better do it within the next five to ten years,\u201d says Claudio Campagna, a biologist who studies elephant seals in Argentina for the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).<\/p>\n<p>And that is precisely what has happened in another part of Patagonia &#8211; the Chilean side of the main Tierra del Fuego island &#8211; where, in 2004, investment bank Goldman Sachs donated a tract of some 270,000 hectares to the WCS for conservation. The result was Karukinka, a reserve that contains the world&#8217;s southernmost stands of old-growth forest and one of its largest expanses of peat bog.<\/p>\n<p>It was as a result of a partnership with the WCS that National Geographic made its Patagonia program, which also received financial support from Goldman Sachs. \u201cWe wanted to have a visual record of what\u2019s going on in Karukinka and\u2026for people who\u2019ve never been there to get a sense of its unique landscape,\u201d says WCS president and CEO, Steven Sanderson. <\/p>\n<p>But it is not only the landscape that is unique in Karukinka. So too &#8211; at least in Latin America &#8211; is the way in which it is being conserved through an alliance between business and an NGO. \u201cFor us, this movie is a way to make more people aware of the opportunities for companies to collaborate with environmental organizations and make important things happen,\u201d says Mark Tercek, head of the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets.<\/p>\n<p>In a region that still offers only a precarious legal framework for private land conservation, the WCS and Goldman Sachs hope that Karukinka will serve as a model for others. Or, in the words of Jeremy Irons, that it will \u201cpoint the way to a future of hope\u201d.  <\/p>\n<p><font size= \u201c2\u201d> <b> More than money<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Financially, Karukinka\u2019s road to the future is pretty secure. As well as donating the land, Goldman Sachs also kicked in with US$1.5 million to help the reserve over its first three years and followed that with an endowment that, together with funds raised by the WCS, will ensure Karukinka\u2019s financial sustainability in perpetuity, says Sanderson.<\/p>\n<p>A small amount of additional income will be generated by low-impact tourist activities, such as trekking &#8211; for which trails are gradually being laid down &#8211; and some fishing. Further down the line, there are also plans to allow cruise ship passengers to disembark in Zodiac boats to visit part of the reserve. <\/p>\n<p>But an innovative project of this kind requires social as well as financial sustainability or, in other words, the acceptance of the community in which it operates. For both the WCS and Goldman Sachs, gaining that acceptance was one of their key objectives from the very beginning. <\/p>\n<p>Tierra del Fuego may be the outpost of Chile but &#8211; not far from the three small islands over which Chile and Argentina almost went to war in the late 1970s &#8211; it is geopolitically sensitive and, because private land conservation is still an unfamiliar phenomenon, it can easily raise suspicion. Moreover, although the WCS has worked in Chile for some 40 years, it has been engaged in low-profile projects and was not well-known locally back in 2004. <\/p>\n<p>One key move in Karukinka\u2019s bid to ensure acceptance was the creation of an advisory council that includes leading local businesspeople and scientists. And, as well as opening the reserve to Chilean universities for research projects, it offers a number of grants to local students to do their undergraduate or postgraduate thesis there. <\/p>\n<p>But the reserve\u2019s sustainability &#8211; and Jeremy Iron\u2019s \u201cfuture of hope\u201d &#8211; also depends on turning the clock back and restoring it to its original state. This is not a matter of mere nostalgia but of stemming the havoc wrought by a species not native to the area &#8211; the beaver. <\/p>\n<p>Introduced into the island in the 1940s in a bid to establish a fur trade, the beaver has proliferated in the absence of natural predators. There are now an estimated 100,000 on Tierra del Fuego, reports Sanderson, and several thousand are believed to have crossed the Magellan Strait to the mainland, posing a threat to the forestry industry there.  <\/p>\n<p>In <I>Eden at the End of the World<\/I>, aerial views of blocked waterways illustrate the damage beavers do by felling trees and damming rivers. Indeed, as a result of  their swelling numbers and industriousness, large areas of Karukinka that were once covered by forests of lenga, a species of beech that occurs only in southern Chile and Argentina, are now under water.  <\/p>\n<p>As part of its efforts to restore the reserve to its natural state, Karukinka is also allowing old logging roads to fall into disrepair so that access to the forest is more limited. The population of guanacos &#8211; a South American relative of the camel &#8211; will be managed too in such a way as to facilitate the forest\u2019s natural regeneration.  <\/p>\n<p>It is, after all, those lenga forests that shelter part of the diversity that biologist B\u00e1rbara Saavedra, the Chilean coordinator of the WCS, identifies as Karukinka\u2019s outstanding feature. Seeking for grubs among the trees are, for example, red-crested Magellanic woodpeckers and the rare Chilean hawk that is only just beginning to be studied. <\/p>\n<p>Shared lessons <\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs \u201cstumbled\u201d into Karukinka &#8211; formerly the site of a failed logging project &#8211; when it acquired it in the course of its normal business as part of a package of distressed assets, recalls Tercek. But the property went on to have a totally unexpected impact on the investment bank. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we tried to figure out how to deal with it in the right way and spoke to people in the conservation community, environmental organizations and academics, we realized how much we could learn from them &#8211; even activists who, you know, are considered troublemakers,\u201d he says. \u201cThey challenged us to harness our firm\u2019s capabilities to environmental problems.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The accidental acquisition was, in fact, the catalyst for Goldman Sachs\u2019s decision to draw up the environmental policy it announced in 2005 when such concerns were still unusual among Wall Street firms. Guided by this policy, the investment bank seeks to achieve good environmental outcomes while also providing good business returns for its shareholders, says Tercek.<br \/>\nA landmark for that policy was the buyout by Goldman Sachs, together with two of the largest U.S. private equity firms, of TXU, Texas&#8217;s main power generator, in 2007. TXU was public enemy N\u00ba 1, recalls Tercek, but Goldman Sachs thought there was a way to do the deal from \u201ca positive, forward-looking, enlightened self-interest environmental point of view\u201d and the result was that TXU cut back its planned coal-fired power stations from 11 to three.  <\/p>\n<p>But, as well as learning from their experience, Karukinka\u2019s partners are also sharing the lessons with others. Both Sanderson and Tercek recently participated in a seminar in Santiago, hosted by the Centro de Estudios P\u00fablicos, on the private sector\u2019s potential role in land conservation, a subject in which there is growing interest, sparked partly by projects like the new reserve.    <\/p>\n<p>As well as a clear legal framework, Latin America, in general, still lacks the tax incentives for private conservation that exist in many industrialized countries. However, some countries, including Chile, are already discussing the possibility of creating a system of conservation easements like those of the United States which allow landowners to enter into a legally-binding agreement to conserve part or all of a property and, in return, qualify for a tax deduction. <\/p>\n<p>Other examples of the contribution that Karukinka can make are more pedestrian. It is, for example, collaborating with Chile\u2019s Ministry of Public Works in a pilot study to minimize the environmental impact of rural roads through simple measures such as eliminating open drainage channels and reforesting the cuttings made for new roads.   <\/p>\n<p>But, as well as helping to build roads, it is also building new bridges. Chile and Argentina have both long recognized the threat posed by beavers and knew that neither individually could tackle the problem successfully but progress was limited. <\/p>\n<p>Now, following a workshop convened by the WCS and Chile\u2019s Agricultural Inspection Service (SAG) in December 2006, a bi-national committee has been established, bringing together the WCS and the Chilean authorities with federal and local authorities from Argentina, to pool resources and find effective solutions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot just in Karukinka but around the world, one of the things we have found is that conservation is good, low-tension diplomacy,\u201d says Sanderson. \u201cWe work in a lot of trans-boundary areas partly because we see things like exotic species, diseases or migrations crossing boundaries.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, animals know no boundaries as one satellite-tagged elephant seal, monitored by the WCS, triumphantly demonstrated with an extraordinary eight-month journey from Peninsula Vald\u00e9s in Argentina, out to the Falklands, round Cape Horn to Karukinka and back through the Magellan Strait. She is, says Sanderson, \u201ca tremendous ambassador\u201d.   <\/p>\n<p><b>Ruth Bradley<\/b> is general editor of <b>bUSiness CHILE<\/b>. She is also the Santiago correspondent for The Economist.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cEl margen para la vida aqu\u00ed es tan fr\u00e1gil como lo fuerte que es el viento\u201d, proclama el actor brit\u00e1nico Jeremy Irons al comienzo de <EM>Eden at the End of the World [El Ed\u00e9n al Final del Mundo<\/EM>], una nueva serie documental de televisi\u00f3n sobre la Patagonia producida por National Geographic para el servicio de televisi\u00f3n p\u00fablica de Estados Unidos.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Con su voz, Irons podr\u00eda derretir al coraz\u00f3n m\u00e1s duro, eso es claro.<!--:--><!--:en-->A new documentary, just released on American television, highlights the work of a pioneering project in Chile, developed by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Goldman Sachs, in pointing the way to the preservation of Patagonia\u2019s beautiful but fragile ecosystems.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","news_tax":[],"user_type":[],"class_list":["post-3933","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Preservando la PatagoniaPreserving Patagonia - AmCham Chile<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/amchamchile.cl\/noticia\/preservando-la-patagonia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Preservando la PatagoniaPreserving Patagonia - AmCham Chile\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cEl margen para la vida aqu\u00ed es tan fr\u00e1gil como lo fuerte que es el viento\u201d, proclama el actor brit\u00e1nico Jeremy Irons al comienzo de Eden at the End of the World [El Ed\u00e9n al Final del Mundo], una nueva serie documental de televisi\u00f3n sobre la Patagonia producida por National Geographic para el servicio de televisi\u00f3n p\u00fablica de Estados Unidos. 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