Last weekend the Ladera Sur Fest 2024 took place in Santa Rosa de Apoquindo Park, an activity that for the past three years has brought together environmental organizations, eco-markets, exhibitors and artists in order to educate about the importance of caring for the environment.

Although as Puelo Patagonia we have participated in all the versions of this true celebration of nature, this year we attended as Conserva Puchegüín, an initiative with which, through national and international donations, we seek to purchase this large private property located in Cochamó, which has been for sale since 2022, in order to protect its biodiversity and traditions, and implement a conservation and local development project.

In this third version of this festival, which this year gathered more than 18 thousand people around nature and culture, we not only had the opportunity to talk to many attendees at our stand, but we were also able to speak to them on a panel on the main stage about Conserva Puchegüín and how we seek to protect a third of the commune of Cochamó hand in hand with its communities.

In the panel called “Conserva Puchegüín: the urgency of protecting Cochamó”, Rodrigo Condeza (Puelo Patagonia), Brady Robinson (Freyja Foundation), Juan José Donoso (The Nature Conservancy Chile) and Pascale Potin (Patagonia Chile), managed to deepen and inspire about the unique opportunity we have to protect this place forever.

Regarding the event, Andrés Diez, executive director of Puelo Patagonia and spokesperson for the Conserva Puchegüín campaign, highlighted the fundamental role that this festival plays for conservation organizations: “We are very pleased with this festival. This is a collaborative instance where we can meet different civil society organizations that are working for the protection of the environment in our country,” he said.

And that is precisely the spirit of the Conserva Puchegüín initiative, which seeks to mobilize support in Chile and the world to protect Cochamó forever.

Learn more and get involved at www.conservapucheguin.org.