Background
The Río Cruces Wetlands Center was created from an unprecedented institution in our country: a Social and Scientific Council (SSC). This SSC included a variety of stakeholders (govermental agencies, NGOs, an university and representatives from Arauco S.A.) involved on the Cruces river ecological disaster of 2004 and was formed to clarify the guidelines for compliance of the measures for the restoration of the Cruces river wetland as ruled by the First Civil Court of Valdivia, on July 27, 2013, in the case brought by the State of Chile against Arauco S.A. This wetland includes a Ramsar Nature and Scientific Research Sanctuary site and its tributary rivers.
For more information please visit the SCC website at www.humedalriocruces.cl