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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Pedro Schwarze

Disaster-hit Chilean Park Sows Seeds Of Fire Resistance

Conservationist Benjamin Veliz inspects reforestation work in Chile's largest botanical gardens (Credit: AFP)

After a wildfire that devastated Chile's largest botanical garden, the century-old park has planted thousands of native trees that it hopes are less likely to go up in flames.

Last year's inferno -- considered the deadliest in Chile's recent history -- killed 136 people, razed entire neighborhoods and destroyed 90 percent of the 400-hectare (990-acre) garden in the coastal city of Vina del Mar.

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