00:00Environmental Students and Territorial Organizations marched across Chile this Saturday to reject
00:06policy setbacks on the President José Antonio Castro's administration.
00:10Processors in Santiago targeted the imminent approval of the Dominga Mining and Porn Mega
00:15Project, which threatens the delicate marine biodiversity of the home-bought archipelago.
00:22Activists warned that approving the project imperils major blue whale sanctuaries and
00:28penguin nest in size welcomed them in the government's withdrawal of 43 key
00:34environmental protection decrees. Environmental defenders demanded the
00:39administration assume political responsibility for ecosystem destruction
00:43urging the state guarantees to prioritize public health and climate
00:48protection over corporate profits.
00:59Today we are facing the imminent approval of the Dominga Project. That is why we are
01:05here talking about the political responsibility that approving this mega mining and port project,
01:10which seeks to destroy the Humboldt Archipelago, would entail it will weigh on the political
01:15responsibility of the five ministers who make up President José Antonio Castro's committee
01:20of ministers if they decide to destroy or to preserve the Humboldt Archipelago.
01:28The largest whale sanctuary on Chile's coast is in danger, the place where 80% of the Humboldt penguin
01:35population nests along with other birds. This is more or less like the Galapagos we have in Chile.
01:42It is a unique place on the South American coast and for that reason I am here, because if this
01:48project is approved,
01:49the place where the greatest biodiversity of marine mammals can be seen, including the blue whale,
01:55will be destroyed, the Humboldt penguin will be lost, as will other extraordinary species that only come to this place.
