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Article: CHILE: GOVERNMENT APPROVES LAW TO PROTECT NATIVE FORESTS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- December 21, 2007
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Daniela Estrada
Inter Press Service English News Wire
12-21-2007
SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 20, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Environmental groups
in Chile are applauding the approval of the country's Native Forest
Recovery and Forestry Development Act, which took 15 years to make
its way through Congress.
"We are happy," said Flavia Liberona, the coordinator of the
Native Forest Network, which has brought together more than 30
environmental and social organizations since 2004. "The approval
of this law is a watershed, the end of a stage. Now the government
will design the regulations, with the commitment to continue
working on three other important aspects."
Nevertheless, environmentalists say they are ...