The kelp forests of Huiro. Photo: Rodrigo Sánchez Grez.

Huiro fishers to create a TURF-Reserve to protect biodiversity

| Guadei TURF-Reserve | 7 Apr 2025

The Huiro Indigenous Fishers Association took an important step toward creating the Guadei TURF-Reserve, the first of its kind outside the Valparaíso Region.

With support from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Chile and Capital Azul Foundation, the organization signed a collaboration agreement to establish a 15-hectare (37-acre) no-take zone within the TURF it manages in Huiro, in the municipality of Corral, near the evergreen forest of the Valdivian Coastal Reserve.

View the PDF here (article in Spanish).

Front page of Diario Austral de Valdivia, Friday, April 4.
Page 9 of Diario Austral de Valdivia, Friday, April 4, 2025 edition.