"We are pleased to inform Your Royal Highness that Chile is committed to completing a network of
Forest Protected Areas, which represents each forest type found in our country. At present 18.3
per cent of the continental national area, which is equivalent to 14.4 million hectares, comes
under the category of Protected Forestland Area... including more than 80 per cent of the
vegetational forms described in Chile."
Juan Villarzu Rohde, Minister Secretary General of the Presidency, 4/2/97
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