Aysén Region authorities in Villa O’Higgins voted this week to lease the 12,000 hectares (25,000 acres) of state-owned property - Río Azul - to a Luksic family company for 50 years in order to create a reserve to protect Chile’s endangered huemul population. The huemul, or South Andean deer, is Chile’s national animal and is currently facing extinction.
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Steve Anderson
Publisher and journalist Steve hails from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he once served as a VISTA volunteer, taught school, practiced law and was involved in community affairs as a justice of the peace on the local Quorum Court. He was also involved in national affairs as an aide to Arkansas Congressman Bill Alexander (1st District). While busy making other plans, force majeure took him to Chile in 1987. In 1991, he launched the Chile Information Project (CHIP) and The Santiago Times as a hobby and spin-off from a project he began while working at the Catholic Church's Vicaria of Solidarity. After stringing for various international mining and fruit export publications, he now is trying to make his hobby into a business — perfecting The Santiago Times and giving life to The Valparaiso Times, Atacama Times and The Patagonia Times. Steve now lives just outside of Puerto Montt on his farm in the community of Panitao, where he works on The Patagonia Times and grows alerce trees. He enjoys spending lots of quality time with his media naranja María Loreto and his son Ray.
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