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CHILE AND CZECH REPUBLIC WORK TO RESTORE TORRES DEL PAINE

by Pat Coate | September 30, 2009

Four years after a negligent Czech citizen, Jiri Smitak, accidentally started a huge fire in the Torres Del Paine national park in far southern Chile, part of the destroyed area is being replanted in native forest trees.

This week Chilean authorities announced that 50 hectares have been replanted with more than 120,000 young lenga trees.

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