We participated in two interesting international seminars this past week: the Symposium on Derecho Real de Conservación, "From The Law to its Practice", in Valdivia, and "The Role of Urban Parks in our Cities", in Santiago. In both we were able to learn new points of view and strengthen ties with our conservation partners.

We have been welcomed as members of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the most relevant international conservation organization, which brings together approximately 1,300 institutions from 170 countries, including state and government agencies, NGOs and research centers.

As a part of its twenty-year anniversary celebration, the heritage campus of the Alberto Hurtado University (UAH) installed a new signage system, which will facilitate and unify the location and identification system for the entire university community and its visitors.

We support the realization of this festival of creativity since its first version, in 2011; since 2014, we have been implementing our Active Teachers program in parallel to the activities offered by the festival, that invites teachers from different regions of the country to participate in the festival and enrich their intellectual and artistic experience.

On Saturday, November 4th, at 6:15 p.m., we presented the educational platform www.legadoverde.cl at the International Book Fair of Santiago (FILSA).

Fundación Origen, organizing institution of the Agroecological School of Pirque, opens Mercado Campesino (Farmers Market), a fair trade area for products of small farmers using sustainable practices. The project is being developed jointly with INDAP, of the Ministry of Agriculture, within its program to support Family Agricultural Farming.

Between September 25 and 28, 2017, this congress was held in Sonoma, California, which brought together 20 Chilean conservation leaders along with their Californian counterparts. Inspired by geographical coincidences and efforts to protect the territory, this conference hopes to generate joint knowledge and strategies. Madeline Hurtado, our president, was one of the participants.

Fundación Mar Adentro actively participates in the 4th International Marine Protected Areas Congress, IMPAC 4, which will be held from the 4th until the 8th of September 2017 in La Serena-Coquimbo. Fundación Mar Adentro's program sets out to observe land and ocean as a common and interrelated space to explore new ways of interaction within coastal areas. A video art program, a scholarship program for researchers from all over the country to come and participate in the congress, as well as workshops that bring together art and science, are some of the activities of this cultural program.

A space for contemporary art installed on the beach and open to the La Serena community, is part of Fundación Mar Adentro's cultural program for the 4th International Marine Protected Areas Congress, IMPAC4, which takes place between the 4th and 8th of September, 2017 in La Serena-Coquimbo, Chile.

The team composed by Daniela Mellado, Carolina Leon, Gabriel Ortega, Javier Godoy, Ricardo Moreno and Iván Díaz, published their work on the vertical profile of bryophytes in coigüe trees, made in Bosque Pehuén, in the scientific journal New Zealand Journal of Botany.