translated from Spanish: Government tries to justify a redefinition of boundaries of the Patagonia National Park: “Inherit a problem”

Through a press release, the Government tried to explain the redefinition of boundaries of the National Park of Patagonia, Ayse region, after an investigation of the medium interference indicating that the grounds of the premises would have been reduced to deliver them to the Australian mining company Equus Mining.
According to the Government, before leaving his post as President, Michelle Bachelet signed the decree creating Patagonia National Park.
In accordance with the agreement between the State and the Tompkins Conservation Foundation, the surface of the Park would reach about 302.335 hectares.
However, the Ministry of national property designates who worked in a new proposal for limits, because that would have particular lands that were erroneously considered to be prosecutors.
“We worked also in answer to the production needs of the area and the incorporation of fiscal lands that had not been considered in the previous proposal,” told from the Executive.
It should be noted that the new proposal approved at the meeting of Ministers of October 25, 2018, considered an area of 304.527,75 hectares. This is 2.192 more than what was agreed in the previous administration as indicated by national assets.
The Minister of the portfolio, Felipe Ward, said that “we have inherited a problem and therefore had to sit to redefine the boundaries of the Park. We had to exclude private property that had been included erroneously and still managed to exceed the number of hectares protected.”
Finally the statement does not make any reference to the alleged delivery of land Australian mining Equus Mining.

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