Chile Stops Billion-Dollar Mining Project To Protect Rare Humboldt Penguins
In a rarified victory for the environment , preservation , and penguin , the Chilean politics has pull the plug on a hugely controversial mining mega - project that was set to cause havoc with the sphere ’s habitat and wildlife , especially its much - get it on Humboldt penguins . The Dominga Project is a proposed $ 2.5 billion copper and iron ore capable excavation task that the Chilean minelaying company Andes Iron skip to construct in the Coquimbo neighborhood of key Chile ....