Chile's new National Glacier Park will cover 75,000 hectares of Andes mountain land about 60 km (40 miles) from the capital Santiago. Photo Credit: Marcelo Segura Chilean Presidency/AFP

Environment Chile20. March 2022

This New National Park Will Protect Hundreds of Glaciers

By establishing a new national glacier park in the Andes mountain, Chile is taking concrete steps to fight climate change and preserve the capital’s melting glaciers, as well as the country’s flora and fauna.

“We are managing to protect 368 glaciers,” says President Sebastian Pinera. Establishing the park is “a fundamental step that our country is taking to combat the destruction of nature.”

The National Glacier Park covering 75,000 hectares of land is located some 60 kilometers from the capital Santiago. According to the country’s president, the glaciers hold 32 times more water than a reservoir that provides water to the capital’s seven million people. Due to global warming, the size of these glaciers is considerably shrinking, and the new national park plays a major role in curbing this problem. Also through the establishment of the national park, animals like pumas and foxes will be better protected, as well as flora native to the mountain terrain.

Source:
France 24

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