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    Posted: 02 Apr 2008 at 5:35pm

Join Global Response’s campaign to save Patagonia’s wild rivers and forests.  The Pascua and Baker Rivers in Chile’s Patagonia are wild, pure, glacier-fed rivers that tumble down to spectacular fjords.  They’re so remote that only the luckiest kayakers and fishermen have experienced them.  Local residents are eager to attract more eco and adventure tourists to Patagonia’s pristine wilderness.  By sharing the beauty, joys and adventure of the region with appreciative guests, they hope to preserve it as a “Reserve of Life (Reserva de Vida).”

But there is now a serious threat to the future of Patagonia’s rivers.  A consortium of powerful energy companies from Spain, Italy and Chile want to build 5 dams on the Pascua and Baker rivers.  This project would destroy the rivers and submerge unique forest ecosystems -- habitat for many endangered and endemic species.  But that’s not all.  To deliver electricity to

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