Chilean Wildfires Ravage Rare Species
Huge firestorms raging across parts of drought-stricken southern Chile have “wiped out” hundreds of rare plant species and threatened wildlife as well, according to environmental advocates.
“There have been whole species lost, such as the Araucaria araucana (monkey puzzle tree),” Accion Ecologica chief Luis Mariano Rendon told Agence France-Presse.
“They are trees that take hundreds of years to reach maturity. So this is a practically irreparable loss for current generations.”
Rendon bemoaned the lack of enough aerial firefighting equipment to protect the ecological heritage of Latin America’s most wealthy country, given how much it spends on fighter jets.
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