Chile announces world's third largest fully protected marine area

Wednesday, October 7th 2015 - 05:37 UTC

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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced this week the creation of the Nazca-Desaventuradas Marine Park, giving Chile claim to the largest marine reserve in the Americas -- as well as the Easter Island Marine Park, which will be the third-largest fully protected marine area in the world. Read full article

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Condorito
“a gift from Chile to the world”

Just waiting for Evo to misconstrue that...
Oct 07th, 2015 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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Heisenbergcontext
It's a great idea. I hope Chile can protect it.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Philippe
A great project! Indeed problem number one will be protection.
Now,
Chile's Navy (through its Directemar) has placed an order for seven excellent Vulcanair P68 Observer 2 (2015/16/17). Perhaps that modest order should be increased to 12 or more airplanes of this type.

Philippe
Oct 07th, 2015 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
Heres looking at you kid ?
Oct 07th, 2015 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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SebaSvtz
Great idea indeed, let´s hope they have the means to enforce it as well.
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Oct 08th, 2015 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brasileiro
Brazil has to increase the tax on products imported from Chile. And require visa for the entry of Chilean in Brazil.

Chile can not be considered a friendly country.
Oct 08th, 2015 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Heisenbergcontext
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“Chile can not be considered a friendly country”.

Because they established a marine reserve? That will potentially be of huge benefit to not just Chile, but the whole continent of South America?

Interesting reasoning...
Oct 08th, 2015 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
#6

Chile imports something like 11 times the goods from Brazil that Brazil buys from Chile. Placing additional tariffs on Chile would be stupid, but consider who's proposing the idea...
Oct 09th, 2015 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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