On 6 September 2023, Law N°21.600, which “Creates the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Service and the National System of Protected Areas”, was published in the Official Gazette. This law establishes a new institutional framework for the administration of Chile’s protected areas and modifies a series of legal bodies in order to adapt them to this new institutional framework.

Among the most relevant contents of this law is the replacement of the National Forestry Corporation (CONAF) as the administrator of protected areas by the new Biodiversity and Protected Areas Service, under the Ministry of Environment.

This new law concludes the modifications to the environmental institutional framework mandated by Law N°20.417 of 2010.

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