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The world is a knot in motion.
— Donna Haraway
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Our multidisciplinary team works together with a network of collaborators to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives to understand the complexity and variety of the world we live in, in which each element is interrelated with the other in a great biological and cultural web.
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Noticias y Artículos
Plants that teach us to care for one another in hard times
A study published in the journal Polar Biology (Springer) reveals how a cushion-shaped plant called Bolax gummifera helps other species survive the extreme conditions of southern Chile. The study is co-led by our Director of Learning, biologist and Doctor of Education, Manuela Méndez.
From Ecological Art to Dialogues on Transhumant Conservation: Our Participation in the 6th SOSOET Colloquium
Fundación Mar Adentro participated in a new colloquium of the Chilean Society of Socioecology and Ethnoecology, held at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Viña del Mar. The event featured the regional presentation of our recent book, Recolección. Artes en defensa de la naturaleza en Chile, as well as a dialogue on transhumance and biocultural conservation in the Maipo River basin, connecting experiences from the mountains, valley, and coast.
When Nature Speaks to Those Who Listen: The Potential of Acoustic Monitoring at Bosque Pehuén
At Bosque Pehuén, autonomous recorders capture daily what the eye cannot reach or climate makes difficult to observe otherwise: songs of birds and amphibians shape the acoustic fingerprint of the forest and its landscape. A recent discovery of a tree frog (Hylorina sylvatica) never before recorded in the reserve reveals the potential of acoustic monitoring, which today unfolds across three lines of research (science, conservation, and art) to listen, transdisciplinarily, to the sonic language of wildlife.
Interview: Gathering visual narratives around nature
We spoke with Maya Errázuriz, Catalina Valdés, and Nélida Pohl, editors of Recolección. Artes en defensa de la naturaleza en Chile (Fundación Mar Adentro/Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad), about the four-year process that gave rise to this publication, which grew out of a policy brief carried out together with the University of Bristol in 2022. The book brings together 68 projects, seven essays, a methodological guide, and a timeline that interweaves art and ecology without establishing a hierarchy between the two disciplines.
A Refuge for Collaborative Science: FMA Strengthens Research Network at First Scientific Meeting in Bosque Pehuén
The two-day gathering brought together specialists from diverse disciplines to share research on the temperate rainforest and lay the groundwork for a collaborative scientific network aimed at strengthening conservation and integrating, in future editions, the art and learning areas of Fundación Mar Adentro.
New book recognizes ecological art as a growing movement in Chile and highlights 68 projects developed throughout the country bringing together voices from the arts, sciences and environmentalism
Recolección. Arts in Defense of Nature in Chile brings together seven essays, 68 artistic initiatives, and a methodological guide that weave ecological creativities, local knowledge, and transdisciplinary practices. This archive of art-ecology convergence responds to urgent socio-environmental challenges. Launch Thursday, July 30, MNHN.
Dead trees that shelter life: study tells how a mother güiña chose a dry oak to raise her cub
We revisited a study published in 2025 in the scientific journal Ecology and Evolution, which documents for the first time that a güiña (Leopardus guigna) raised her cub inside the cavity of a standing dead tree. Our conservation director, Tomás Altamirano, is a co-author of the work, which also provides, for the first time, data on the reproductive productivity of the species based on more than a decade of camera trap records across four regions of southern Chile.
The Potato as a Hub of Socio-Ecological Relationships
Desde 2026, Fiorella Angelini e Ignacio Serrano lideran en FMA una investigación sobre biomateriales —derivados de organismos biológicos— para aplicar en mediaciones y museografía. Su punto de partida es el almidón de papa y sus variedades en la Araucanía Andina. En el Día Internacional de la Papa, conversamos con tres asesores sobre cómo este alimento concentra redes ecológicas, culturales e históricas.
(Español) Cerámica, agroecología y otros ritmos: estudiantes del Programa de Apoyo Integral iniciaron un nuevo ciclo en Pirque
Como primera jornada del año del Programa de Apoyo Integral (PAI) de nuestra fundación y la Universidad Alberto Hurtado (UAH), doce estudiantes de distintas carreras de esta casa de estudios visitaron Fundación Origen en Pirque. Para siete de ellos, recién integrados al programa, fue también su primera experiencia como parte del PAI.
Open Call: Ecological Stories for Children (in Spanish) — A Contest Inspired by Water
Through this call from Museo Taller and our foundation, we seek to encourage the creation of quality literature for children that fosters both a love of reading and the transmission of values, as well as the construction of a new relationship of knowledge, respect, and conservation of Chile's diverse habitats, from a perspective that integrates territories, knowledges, and communities.