Fundación Conservación Marina
We work to conserve key areas for biodiversity and human wellbeing in southern Chile.
We work to conserve key areas for biodiversity and human wellbeing in southern Chile.
“We work to conserve the coastal and marine ecosystems of southern Chile through a biocultural approach, grounded in scientific research, planning, environmental education, and good governance.”
Our work is organized around these programs, focused on the Los Lagos Region in southern Chile.
A marine wetland on Quinchao Island, Chiloé Archipelago, critical habitat for migratory shorebirds.
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A network of coastal wetlands between Maullín and Chiloé, key to the migration, breeding, and conservation of birds and communities.
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Research for the conservation of the Chilean flamingo in the wetlands of northern Patagonia.
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Research, monitoring, and protection of the American oystercatcher on Quinchao Island, Chiloé.
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Training local guides and operators to build sustainable nature tourism aligned with conservation.
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Courses, citizen environmental monitoring, and place-based environmental education for communities near protected areas.
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FCM took part in the third edition of Chiloé EcoFest, in Quellón, with the talk “The Flamingos' Winter” on the ecology of the Chilean Flamingo and Chiloé's marine wetlands…
On Friday, October 9, the Sanctuary's Governance Board held its third meeting in Curaco de Vélez, with new results from benthic macroinvertebrate monitoring and from the assessment of the new boardwalk…
On Monday, September 14, a community clean-up day took place at the La Pasada wetland, in the Maullin River estuary, led by local birdwatching enterprises and supported by FCM…
See our latest activities here.