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AGREEMENTS WITH ARTISANAL FISHERS’ COMMUNITIES

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DISCOVER THE TURF-RESERVE PROGRAM

In alliance with artisanal fishing unions or associations, we are dedicated to encourage the establishment of TURF-Reserves, non-extractive marine areas located within the productive areas known as Territorial User Rights for Fisheries (TURF or AMERB, as abbreviated in spanish). This allows to combine use and conservation in the same system.

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TURF-Reserves

18k

Fish records

13k

Records of invertebrates

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TURF-Reserves

18k

Fish records

13k

Records of invertebrates

CHILE’S TURF-RESERVES

Biodiversity monitoring in Zapallar
Cachagua’s TURF-Reserve inauguration

OUR MODEL

CO-CREATION

We get involved with multiple actors, recognizing the experience and knowledge to create situated proposals, feasible and complex as they are nourished by multiple perspectives.

BASED ON SCIENCE

We document marine biodiversity benefits based on sampling data.

Scaling Environmental and Community Benefits

The restoration of marine life must be able to generate appropriate benefits for local communities, who assume a leading role in this challenge.

CO-CREATION

We get involved with multiple actors, recognizing the experience and knowledge to create situated proposals, feasible and complex as they are nourished by multiple perspectives.

BASED ON SCIENCE

We document marine biodiversity benefits based on sampling data.

Scaling Environmental and Community Benefits

The restoration of marine life must be able to generate appropriate benefits for local communities, who assume a leading role in this challenge.

Tiburon-Pintarroja-en-el-Refugio-Marino-de-Ventanas

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Chilean catshark

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NEWS

Zapallar TURF-Reserve: a living example of conservation led by artisanal fishing

This opinion piece was originally published in The Navigator, an e-newsletter from Rise Up For The Ocean, a global network of over 600 groups representing civil society, foundations, businesses, small-scale fishers and Indigenous peoples.

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Impact Report 2023: A year to begin strengthening the TURF-Reserves program

Learn about some of the milestones that marked our work together with artisanal fishing groups with a view to promoting this conservation figure based on science and led by local communities.

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Fishers of Cachagua inaugurate a TURF-Reserve to promote its care amongst the local community

With the participation of various actors from the town of Zapallar, public institutions, civil society organizations, educational establishments and neighbors, the Cachagua Artisanal Fishers Union officially opened the doors of the Cachagua TURF-Reserve, an initiative that has been working since 2020 in conjunction with Capital Azul Foundation.

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Zapallar’s fishers celebrate with the community the TURF-Reserve’s second anniversary

The cove was filled with life and colors to celebrate a new year of life of the Zapallar TURF-Reserve: Kayak rides, open water swimming, environmental education stands, projection of films about the TURF-Reserves and a limpet stew were part of the ingredients of this marine conservation party led by the local community.

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