Orlando Milesi – Coal Mine Threatens Ecological Paradise in Chile’s Patagonia Region

Riesco, the country’s fourth-largest island, at the southern tip of South America, and the waters around it, is home to many species, such as the humpback whale, four kinds of dolphins, elephant seals and penguins, 24 species of land mammals and 136 birds. “I will not leave. But I see the drastic changes,” a worried Gregor Stipicic, one of the …