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Pumalin Park (Chile) Private Protected Areas: Legal Framework for Pumalin Park (Chile) Lorenzo Soto Oyarzún* Information concerning the legal instruments discussed in this case study is current as of 30 November 2009. * Director, Sociedad Chilena de Derecho Ambiental (Environmental Law Society), Chile. 1 Private PAs (Pumalin, Chile) Abstract The Pumalin Park Nature Sanctuary is the first large-scale private environmental conservation project in Chile. It covers a natural area containing fjords, glaciers and pristine forests in the Chilean Patagonia. It began as an initiative by American entrepreneur Douglas Tompkins, who in 1994 purchased approximately 300,000 hectares of primeval forest-covered land in Patagonia to protect the area and use it for ecotourism. The Pumalin Park Nature Sanctuary is an unprecedented conservation initiative in Chile. It has encoun- tered a number of difficulties and challenges, arising from the scope of the project, its characteristics and its purposes. Pumalin Park has nevertheless managed with relative success to overcome these challenges and the criticism it has faced, to become the country’s largest private conservation area. In this project, market tools including private ownership were used to protect land for conservation purposes and subsequently apply for nature sanctuary classification. This protected area category allows for private ownership but it is also subject to government regulation and control through the National Monuments Council. The nature sanctuary category covers sites that possess significant potential for geological, palaeontological, zoological, botanical or ecological research, or that contain natural features of interest to the scientific community or the state. The project had to overcome a range of difficulties including irregularities in the land tenure of people living in the area, lack of transport services connecting the region (a government-owned strip of land across the park had to be established so that infrastructure projects could be implemented), and opposition and mistrust among political and social groups at the national and local levels. The project ultimately succeeded; the area was designated as a nature sanctuary in 2005 and the Chilean Pumalin Foundation (Fundación Pumalín) was established as its owner and manager. A number of public-private agreements laid the foundations for this venture. Pumalin Park is a fine example of how conservation and tourism business initiatives can be fostered using market tools, and how public-private cooperation agreements can be concluded. It also shows that public environmental policy can be guided to achieve specific goals: in this case, the conservation of vast areas of the country’s southern region. IUCN-EPLP No. 81 2 Private PAs (Pumalin, Chile) Contents 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 4 2 Legal framework for private protected areas in Chile ....................................................... 4 3 Designation of Pumalin Park as a nature sanctuary ........................................................... 7 4 Background ............................................................................................................................ 8 5 The process of creating Pumalin Park ................................................................................ 10 6 Regulatory and contractual agreements ........................................................................... 11 7 Challenges for the future ...................................................................................................... 12 References ......................................................................................................................................... 14 3 IUCN-EPLP No. 81 Private PAs (Pumalin, Chile) 1 Introduction 1 The Pumalin Park Nature Sanctuary is Chile’s first large-scale private environmental conservation project. It covers a natural area containing fjords, glaciers and pristine forests in the region known as Continental Chiloe in Chilean Patagonia. The land was purchased in 1994 by American entrepreneur Douglas Tompkins in order to protect the area and use it for ecotourism. An investment of approximately 25 million US dollars was made for this purpose. 2 Pumalin Park is located in the Palena province of Chile’s Region X, Los Lagos,1 and covers a surface area of 288,689 hectares (Figure 1). It lies between 42°00’ and 42°59’ South and 71°56’ and 72°49’ West, in one of Chile’s most sparsely populated regions, with 1.2 inhabitants per sq km. Seventy per cent of the population lives in rural areas, mainly in the valleys and on the coast and islands. 3 Through a Decree issued in 2005,2 Pumalin Park was officially designated as a nature sanctuary under the National Monuments Law3 and placed under the administrative authority of the National Monuments Council (Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales),4 the government body responsible for nature sanctuaries. A Resolution issued in 20055 recognized the legal personality of the Pumalin Foundation (Fundación Pumalín)6 and approved its statutes. Ownership was transferred to the Pumalin Foundation from the Conservation Land Trust, a non-profit organization created in the United States and currently chaired by Douglas Tompkins. This brought to a close the long development process for this conservation project, involving more than 10 years of negotiations. 4 This case study aims to briefly illustrate Chile’s experience with private protected areas. Pumalin Park is an example of a private environmental conservation initiative that was required to use a variety of legal and economic tools in order to overcome social, political and cultural challenges.7 2 Legal framework for private protected areas in Chile 5 Chile has a long history of creating natural conservation areas8 but the country does not yet have a systematic, modern and integrated legal framework for natural protected areas. Nor are any regulations currently in force for private protected areas. The regulatory framework is scattered and fragmented, consisting of a series of individual legal texts and isolated provisions. 6 Although several protected areas were created prior to its enactment, the Forest Law of 19259 provided the first legal basis for protected areas in Chile. The Forest Law created the categories of ‘national tourism park’ and ‘forest reserve’. The 1940 Convention on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation 1 The region is Chile’s main administrative subdivision. Regions are further divided into provinces. 2 Ministry of Education, Decree No. 1.137 of 19 August 2005. 3 Law No. 17.288 of 1970. 4 The National Monuments Council is part of the Ministry of Education. 5 Ministry of Justice, Resolution No. 1.625 of 26 April 2005. 6 The Pumalin Foundation is a Chilean non-profit private entity that was specifically established to own and manage the park. 7 See Ramírez and Folchi, 1999. 8 As early as 1879, there was an attempt to create a forest reserve area 10 km wide on the Andean slopes in the provinces of Arauco, Valdivia and Llanquihue, and 1 km wide in the Chilean Coast Range. The first decisive step, however, was the creation of the Malleco Forest Reserve in 1907. 9 Decree Law No. 656 of 1925. IUCN-EPLP No. 81 4 Private PAs (Pumalin, Chile) Figure 1: Map of Pumalin Park Source: Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales, 2009. in the Western Hemisphere (Western Hemisphere Convention) was incorporated into the national legal system in 1967, and the categories of ‘natural monument’ and ‘pristine area reserve’ were added. The regulatory framework was to be streamlined with the enactment of the Law Establishing the 7 National System of Wild Areas Protected by the State,10 which would have consolidated all existing regulatory provisions in a single legal text and established the National System of Natural Protected Areas (Sistema Nacional de Áreas Silvestres Protegidas del Estado, or SNASPE). This law, however, never came into force.11 It was with the enactment of the Environmental Framework Law of 199412 that the National System 8 of Natural Protected Areas was legally recognized. The 1994 Law provides: “The State shall manage a National System of Natural Protected Areas, including marine parks and reserves, so as to ensure biological diversity, foster nature protection and safeguard our environmental heritage” (art. 34). According to the National Forestry Corporation (Corporación Nacional Forestal, or CONAF), Chile currently has 96 10 Law No. 18.362 of 1984. 11 The Law Creating the National System of Protected Areas was to take effect (art. 39) from the date of the entry into force of the Law Creating the National Forestry and Renewable Natural Resources Protection Corporation (Law No. 18.348 of 1984). That law, in turn, was to take effect (art. 19) once the President of the Republic had published a decree in the Official Journal abolishing the National Forestry Corporation (Corporación Nacional Forestal, or CONAF). But the Decree to disestablish the National Forestry Corporation was never issued, thereby preventing both laws from coming into force. 12 Law No. 19.300 of 1994. 5 IUCN-EPLP No. 81 Private PAs (Pumalin, Chile) such areas, comprising 33 national parks, 48 national reserves and 15 natural monuments, covering a total surface area of approximately 14 million hectares, or 19 per cent of the national territory.13 9 The protected areas system includes the following categories: pristine area reserves, national
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