Bosque Aysén · Temple of Silence

A forest that stays a forest

Bosque Aysén is a protected area in Chilean Patagonia. No buildings, no traffic, no extraction.

Legal protection

The land is protected by a Chilean legal instrument, the Derecho Real de Conservación (DRC), under Law No. 20.930. It is registered to the property, cannot be separated from it, and binds future owners too.

That lets the forest serve as a long-term reference site. What is measured here today can be compared decades from now, because nobody will have interfered in between.

Five rules of the reserve

• No extractionNo logging, no mining.
• IntegrityThe forest is not cut up by roads or buildings.
• Minimal footprintMovement only along set routes. Nothing taken, nothing left behind.
• SilenceNo engines, no noise.
• Natural processesNatural processes come before human intervention.

“I do not accept the role of owner. I am only a temporary steward of a place whose horizon reaches beyond a human life. Bosque Aysén is an archive of nature built for centuries.”