Library Forest
Restoring a South American temperate rainforest.
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Trees
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Native Species
Library Forest sits within the grounds of a public library, located in a deprived area of the Chilean city of Frutillar. The building of the forest is a critical part of the community engagement programme, helping adults and children reap the wellbeing benefits a forest can offer, as well as providing lessons in biodiversity and the native rainforest ecosystems. The site includes a 300-year-old ‘Mother Tree’ - a Chilean laurel (Laurelia sempervirens) - that is at the heart of this new forest.
Forest Maker
Bosko Chile
Forest Partner
“We are a public library with a strong commitment to social, educational and cultural development. We can only set an excellent example by implementing strategies to take care of our own green areas. One can hardly promote care for the environment if one's own work space is not cared for.”
Sonia Núñez, Head of Public Library of Frutillar
Planting: April 2023
“Frutillar is a small centre of culture and nature in the middle of the temperate forest of southern Chile. This library represents the same spirit: to be a space of culture and nature, at the service of the community.”
Team Bosko, SUGi Forest Maker
Rewilding Frutillar
Frutillar is located in the south of Chile where temperate rainforest ecosystems - also known as Valdivian temperate rainforest - are found. These native rainforests have been in large part cleared in the locality. Currently, where green space exists, it is often agricultural and degraded land. As such, this project is ecologically significant for it will see the complex environment revived and set an example for the restoration of other rainforest ecosystems across South America.