Tag: Los Alerces National Park

• Friday, January 10th 2025 - 10:39 UTC

  Argentina: Mapuches evicted from Los Alerces National Park

  

  After four years of legal actions, a group of self-identified Mapuches was evicted from Argentina's Los Alerces National Park following instructions from Esquel's Federal Judge Guido Otranto. Chubut Governor celebrated the measure.

• Tuesday, February 6th 2024 - 11:04 UTC

  Argentina: Nahuel Huapi National Park joins list of places affected by wildlfires

  

  While wildfires in Argentina's Los Alerces National Park in the province of Chubut are far from being under control and the situation in Chile keeps getting worse by the hour, a new fire has been reported in the Nahuel Huapi National Park covering the skiing resort of Bariloche with smoke.

• Monday, January 29th 2024 - 10:24 UTC

  Mapuche Resistance behind National Park fire, Chubut governor says

  

  Over 1000 hectares of land have burned down in the Los Alerces National Park in the Argentine province of Chubut, where Governor Ignacio Torres blamed the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) rebel organization for starting the fire, it was reported Sunday. “There are indications that the fire was intentional,” he stressed.