he Andes mountains frame what was once a wetland – now a stretch of dry, yellowed grass. Rodrigo Vallejos, a final year law student, noticed the change five years ago while observing the Quilicura wetland, on the northern outskirts of Santiago. One of Chile s largest swamps, spanning 468.4 hectares about 1,200 acres and partially protected , was drying up right before his eyes. “What you see here is a wetland without water,” says Vallejos, who has investigated the causes alongside activists...
