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Impact Report 2025
Dive into the pages of our Impact Report 2025, where we share the milestones, reach and main activities that marked a year of action, resilience and collective learning for community-led marine conservation. This report is the result of a joint effort by artisanal fishers unions, academia, the public sector, NGOs and the wider community. We invite you to explore our impact data, relive the audiovisual records and be inspired by a new paradigm of marine sustainability.
Impact Report 2025
Memories for Conservation: voices and stories of the Zapallar Artisanal Fishers Union
Co-created by the fishers of the Zapallar union and Capital Azul Foundation, these pages recover a web of life in which identity, family and trade are inseparably intertwined with the sea. An invitation to see biodiversity conservation as a deeply human act, this book is a living record so that new generations and visitors to Zapallar recognize that the true wealth of the ocean also lies in the history of its people.
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La Polcura TURF-Reserve Scorecard: 2025
Dive into the biodiversity monitoring data and the main milestones and activities of the 2025 recap of the La Polcura TURF-Reserve, such as a workshop to strengthen environmental education through aquariums, the collective prioritization of the cove’s future, the union’s participation in the Third International TURF-Reserves Meeting, and much more.
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Ventanas TURF-Reserve Scorecard: 2025
Dive into the 2025 recap of the Ventanas TURF-Reserve. Explore the biodiversity monitoring data, which show an encouraging recovery of huiro palo kelp and some sea stars, alongside a sharp decline in black sea urchins. Look back, too, at the main milestones of the year with the Ventanas union, such as filming an audiovisual episode and the subtidal biodiversity monitoring course.
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Zapallar TURF-Reserve Scorecard: 2025
Look back on 2025 in the Zapallar TURF-Reserve. Explore, in a friendly format, the biodiversity monitoring data and the main activities and milestones of the year, including the Zapallar Artisanal Fishers Union’s renewed Collaboration Agreement to maintain the Voluntary Protection Zone for the next 10 years!
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Cachagua TURF-Reserve Scorecard: 2025
Dive into the 2025 Scorecard of the Cachagua TURF-Reserve. Explore, in a friendly format, the biodiversity monitoring data and the activities of this annual recap. An aquarium workshop to strengthen environmental education, the Women’s Gathering for TURF-Reserves, and the filming of a documentary and an audiovisual episode about this Voluntary Protection Zone were some of the year’s milestones.
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Maitencillo TURF-Reserve Scorecard: 2025
We invite you to explore the 2025 Scorecard of the Maitencillo TURF-Reserve, a friendly document that invites you to explore the biodiversity monitoring data and the activities that marked the course charted on this shared voyage. An audiovisual record of the story of this Voluntary Protection Zone told by its protagonists, the unveiling of a community mural and the subtidal biodiversity monitoring course were some of the year’s milestones.
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Coloring book: Getting to know the Maitencillo TURF-Reserve
This educational material, launched at the 2025 Marea Baja Festival, seeks to bring new generations closer to the richness of our coast. Through illustrations to color and simple, educational language, this booklet explains what a TURF-Reserve is and introduces the emblematic species that live and are recovering in Maitencillo. It is an ideal tool for families and schools that want to encourage knowledge of the sea, value local biodiversity and strengthen coastal identity. Download it, print it and color it in!
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Bulletin on the participatory workshop on governance and quality of life in fishing coves
We invite you to download the information bulletin summarizing the workshop led by Fundación Mujeres de Mar at the Third International TURF-Reserves Meeting. The bulletin highlights key factors for living and working together and the contribution of gender laws, which strengthen gender equity and representation in the artisanal fishing sector.
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Infographic: Three laws transforming life in fishing coves
Prepared by Fundación Mujeres de Mar, it outlines the historic progress of the gender approach in Chile’s artisanal fishing sector through three key laws. Incorporating a gender perspective into Laws No. 21,370, No. 21,698 and No. 21,709 promotes more inclusive and equitable management of coastal seas, strengthening community well-being and conservation.
Content team: Ignacia Borgeaud Núñez, Magdalena Ceballos Mendieta and Daniela Tapia Navarrete. Design: Estudio Fortuna.