Chile's Native Forests: A Conservation Legacy

David Brower, Earth Island Institute
Chile's Native Forests is an invaluable product of an international cooperative effort with Chileans to describe, protect, and restore the beautiful and ancient temperate rainforest of southern Chile. It is in the spirit of what we have in mind for forest, watersheds, communities and ecosystems worldwide.


Adriana Hoffmann, Defenders of the Chilean Forest
As a scientist I am most gratified that finally there is a study which generally informs the international conservation community about the planet's most biologically diverse temperate forest ecosystem.


Catherine Caufield, author of In the Rainforest
I applaud and support AFI's efforts to protect Chile's temperate rainforests... as magnificent as the shrinking old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.


Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden
Your efforts, along with those of the Chileans involved in the project, have certainly had an impact in alerting the world.


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Chile's Native Forests: A Conservation Legacy is a book about one of the wildest remaining temperate forest regions of the world, including the largest temperate rainforest outside North America. All of the nation's major forest ecosystems are described. The work is richly illustrated with maps and photos, and includes brief histories of forest exploitation and conservation over the last 500 years. The book also shares what many Chileans feel are the greatest threats to these wild forests, and what experts believe to be the highest priorities for preservation. Chile's Native Forests is an essential reference for those with an interest in forests and forest conservation in Chile or Latin America, for Chile-bound eco-travelers, or for anyone concerned about the future of the world's forests.


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