Chile is actively working to preserve its biodiversity and natural ecosystems and through the Narional Forestry Corporation (CONAF) officially launched the Urban Afforestation Program (PAU) 2026, a project that provides the distribution of 18, 000 plant specimens across the Metropolitan Region, a vast territory that ecompasses Chile’s capital, Santiago along with parts of the Andes Mountains and Chilean Coastal Range.
The initiative seeks to increase vegetation in urban areas and in the 52 municipalities of the capital and address increasingly pressing environmental problems, such as extreme temperatures and the scarcity of green spaces in disadvantaged sectors according to information from El Maipo, a renowned Chilean news agency..
The Urban Afforestation Program aims to consolidate itself as a undamental tool to move towards more resilient, sustainable and fair centres, where access to green areas creates to be a privilege and becomes a right for all the inhabitants of the Metropolitan Region.
The
Narional Forestry Corporation culminated a launch tour that included activities
in various locations including Colina, Melipilla, and Puente Alto, where local
and regional authorities received the technical guidelines of the program,
whose main purpose is to reduce extreme temperatures in the most unprotected
areas.
Of the total number of specimens available, 14.000 belong to native species,
such as carob tree, maitén, and quillay, chosen for their high tolerance to
drought and their adaptation to the climatic conditions of the central zone.
The remaining 4.000 plats will be foreign species, used in a complementary way
in particular projects.
The director of CONAF Metropolitan Region, Mario Pinto, highlighted the social
nature of the program, and stressed the importance of municipalities presenting
projects that concretely reach the population, prioritizing the sectors with
greatest needs, adding that the organization seeks to improve squares and
parks, but fundamentally to reduce the heat islands that affects the
Metropolitan Region’s citizens.
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