Artículos
Commission of Experts and the Environment: 2023 Constitutional Process
About a year ago, environmental organizations watched with joy and hope the discussions held in the commissions of the Constitutional Convention, whose rules refer to empowered territories, nature as a subject of law, and glaciers with a high and detailed level of...
STATEMENT: The role of the Ministry of the Environment in the approval of “Los Bronces Integrado”: a ministry without environmental criteria
Last Monday, April 17th, the Committee of Ministers approved without hesitations and unanimously the “Los Bronces Integrado” project of the British mining company Anglo American, which, with USD 3.5 billion on the table and the promise to clean up the air of the...
Fundación Glaciares Chilenos invites you to the Ecobelleza Festival of NGO Te Protejo
This coming Saturday, April 29th and Sunday, April 30th, the country's largest sustainable beauty event returns to the Estación Mapocho Cultural Center, with around 100 exhibitors, workshops, talks, vegan food, and cruelty-free beauty space. Ecobelleza Festival, an...
Statement: No to the “Los Bronces Integrados” mining megaproject
After a long evaluation process, on Tuesday, April 17th of 2023, the Committee of the Ministry of Environment, led by its Minister, Maisa Rojas, eventually approved the “Los Bronces Integrado” mining project of Anglo-American Sur company, despite convincing scientific...
Journey logbook: expedition to the Tenerife glacier
If one day you visit Puerto Natales city, in the Magallanes region and, at the same time, you observe with curious eyes its surroundings, besides the iconic Balmaceda mount, you’ll be able to sight a hill with a pronounced conic formation, very similar to a volcano....
Chasing Glaciers “Mission Huaytapallana”: Awakening to a Revealing Truth
It all began as a thesis project in 2018, which was taking shape and mutating in this vivid and shocking documentary released in 2019. Misión Huaytapallana, is the debut of the American director Mark Gregory and after its success, together with the audiovisual...
«Del Aula a los Hielos» project in Aldea Bosque School from Chonchi, Chiloé
At the beginning of December, 2022, we finished our educational project “Del Aula a los Hielos: Glaciares Chilenos en tu escuela” [From the Classroom to the Ices: Chilean glaciers in your school] that looks for getting Chilean glaciers closer to children and teenagers...
On the International Mountains Day we say: #QueremosParque
In celebration of the International Mountain Day and to highlight the urgent protection of the entire 142,000 hectares of public land in the Río Colorado area of Cajón del Maipo, the documentary “Queremos Parque: un documental sobre la lucha por la protección de las...
Fundación Glaciares Chilenos joins Ladera Sur Festival 2022
The first version of Ladera Sur Festival will be carried out on November 18th, 19th and 20th, and to inform, educate and reconnect are its main purposes. Through talks, workshops, live music, sustainable markets and naturalistic art, the expectation of this Festival...
10 glacial reasons to vote approve
On Thursday, September 1st, the campaign period for the Plebiscite for the new Constitution of Chile officially ends. We are only days away from a pioneering democratic process in the world that is of vital importance to society. For this reason, and to close our...
Confirmed: Codelco and Anglo-American mining operations affect nearby glaciers
In the Andes Mountains in Chile, mining activities have destroyed several ecosystems. Mining is the most damaging human activity for the conservation of glaciers. In 2014, the General Water Directorate funded a research project on glaciers in the central Andes to...
Glacier collapse in the Italian Alps leaves at least 7 dead
The tragedy occurred on Sunday, July 3rd, Italy, when a huge fragment of an alpine glacier slid down the mountain side, leaving several injured. The victims of this incident were hikers who were at the peak in that moment. After the event, at least 7 people were...