After a wildfire devastated Chile's largest botanical garden, the century-old park rebuilds with trees it hopes are less likely to go up in flames. The wildfire of February 2024, considered the deadliest in Chile's recent history, killed 136 people and destroyed 90 percent of the 990-acre garden in the coastal city of Vina del Mar. [+ ARCHIVES IMAGES 04:13:12-05:10:18]
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00:30We have been able to address, mainly in the botanical garden, that reforestation uses
00:41the criteria of flammability, that is, to use species of low flammability according to
00:45other results, so that a kind of barrier can be generated in front of the fire and prevent
00:51the spread of fire.
01:21It's entertaining.
01:52Preventing means removing soil fragments, buying water tanks, buying water pumps,
01:57having the water ready, all that is expensive.
02:10We desoil and imagine this leaf versus an eucalyptus leaf.
02:17Do you understand the difference?
02:19Yes.
02:20The other thing that I saw arrive today, and now I see that it is gone, is a giant water tank.