Boldo Cantillana

This conservation initiative is protecting ecologically significant landscapes comprised of Chile’s Mediterranean habitat -the rarest, most threatened, and least protected ecosystem in the country- by using the Derecho Real de Conservación (DRC), Chile’s breakthrough private lands conservation agreement.

With the financial support of the BHP Foundation’s Global Environmental Resilience Program, the Boldo-Cantillana initiative is advancing the protection of a 930,000-hectare landscape corridor, located in Chile’s Central Valley. The Boldo-Cantillana corridor extends from the capital city of Santiago to the resort city of Zapallar on the Pacific coast, with the goal of creating critical habitat linkages between the Coastal Range to the Andes Mountains.

Tierra Austral’s Boldo-Cantillana project is contributing to Chile’s national goal of protecting approximately 30% of its ecosystems by 2030. Tierra Austral is also increasing public awareness of the local, national, and even global significance of this habitat as well as demonstrating the practicality and effectiveness of the DRC as a land protection tool that accommodates a range of sustainable land uses, including forestry and agriculture, and that is available to private landowners throughout Chile.