The Patagonia Times
Evidence continues to mount linking Chilean forestry company CELCO (Celulosa Arauco y Constitución) to the death and disappearance in Region XIV’s Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary of a once-sizeable population of black-necked swans. A recent report filed by Universidad Santo Tomás researcher Nelson Lagos concludes that between May 2004 – three months after CELCO opened a pulp mill 30 kilometers upriver from the nature sanctuary – and May 2005, Carlos Anwandter’s swan population dropped from nearly 8,000 to just 518. Read more here