Birds, fish and flowers are returning to a river that cuts through Chile's capital after a decade-long effort transformed it from an eyesore filled with wastewater to an urban refuge for nature and wildlife.
Mauricio Fabry, head of the regional government's environmental office, said it is working with local districts to officially declare Santiago's Mapocho River an urban wetland, with legal protections to safeguard environmental gains.
"I've seen we have birds of prey like peregrine falcons hunting in the river, I've seen migratory birds like Franklin's gulls and there are more people looking at the river," Fabry said. Joaquin Moure, director of the Mapocho Vivo foundation that seeks to protect the river, said it has been a decade since a local water supply company diverted wastewater to treatment plants that once was destined for the river.
Declaring the Mapocho River an urban wetland will make it easier to protect the natural state of the river by preventing real estate development, dumping and activities like sand and rock extraction, Fabry said.
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