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Table 2 Protection value and number of legal standards to different types of inland wetlands in Chile

From: Legal protection assessment of different inland wetlands in Chile

Legal standards/protection value

VP potencial wetlands

Rivers

Brackish Andean lakes

Lagoons

High-altitude Andean peatlands

Freshwater swamp forests

Permanent freshwater marshes and swamps

Act N° 19,300

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

DS N° 531 Washington Convention

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

DS N° 141 CITES

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

DL N° 3,485 Ramsar Convention

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

DS N° 868 Migratory species (Bonn Convention)

2

2

2

2

2

0

2

Decree N° 1,963 Convention on Biodiversity

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Act N° 11,402 Barriers and river banks and streams

5

5

0

0

0

0

0

Act N° 17,288 National Monuments

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Act N° 18,892 Aquaculture and Fishing Law

5

5

0

5

0

0

0

Act N° 18,902 Sanitary health superintendency creation; industrial liquid residues control

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Act N° 19,473 Hunting Law

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

DFL N° 208 Provisions to fishing development

3

3

0

3

0

0

0

DFL N° 701 About forest development

3

3

0

3

0

3

3

Act N° 20,283 Native Forest and Forest Development Recovering Law

6

6

0

6

0

6

6

Act N° 20,256 Recreative fishing standards

6

6

0

6

0

0

0

Act N° 20,411 Prevent constitution water rights (Arica/Parinacota a O’Higgins)

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

DFL N° 725 Sanitary Code

Art. 73

3

3

0

3

0

0

0

DFL N° 1,122 Water Code

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

DS N° 1 Aquatic pollution control rules

2

2

2

2

0

0

0

DS N° 5 Hunting law standard approval

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

DS N° 29 Approval of classification of species standards based on conservation conditions

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

DS N° 30 Act 19,300 Standards

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

DS N° 46 Groundwater discharge standards

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

DS N° 33 Classification process of species according to conservation condition

2

2

0

0

0

0

0

DS N° 41 Classification process of species according to conservation condition

2

2

0

2

2

2

2

DS N° 42 Classification process of species according to conservation condition

2

2

0

2

0

2

2

DS N° 51 Classification process of species according to conservation condition

2

2

2

2

2

0

2

DS N° 82 Act No. 20,283 Soil, water, and wetland regulations

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

DS N° 90 Standards to liquid residue discharge into surface fresh water

2

2

2

2

0

0

0

DS N° 93 (1995) Primary and secondary environmental quality standards

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

DS N° 93 (2009) Native Forest Recovery and Forestry Development rules

4

4

0

4

0

4

4

DS N° 193 DL N° 701 General rules

2

2

0

2

0

2

2

DS N° 210 Regulation of reforestation and planting for recreational fishing

2

2

0

2

0

0

0

DS N° 236 Regulation not discharged sewage disposal to sewer networks

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

DS N° 238 Regulation for parks and marine reserves (including inland waters)

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

DS N° 320 Environmental aquaculture rules

2

2

0

2

0

0

0

DS N° 430 Consolidated, coordinated, and systematized document on fishery law

3

3

0

3

0

0

0

DS N° 594 Rules for health and environmental conditions in work places

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

DS N° 351 Rules for neutralization and depuration of liquid industrial residues

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

DS N° 609 Standard for sewerage industrial liquid residues discharge

2

2

0

2

2

2

2

DS N° 4,363 Approves final text forestry law

3

3

0

3

0

3

3

DS N° 2,374 Regulation to forest exploitation in forest watersheds and dams

2

2

0

2

0

2

2

Decree N° 878 Native fish extraction prohibition in inland waters

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

NCh N° 1,333/87 Chilean water quality standards

3

3

0

3

3

3

3

Secondary environmental quality standards

4

4

0

4

0

0

0

Resolution N° 425 Establish groundwater exploration and exploitation standards

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

Resolution N° 197 Declares Loa River reduction and feeders for new farms

3

0

3

0

3

0

0

Total standards

47

46

27

44

28

32

34

Total legal protection value

144

141

80

134

83

98

102

  1. DS Supreme Decree, DL Law Decree, DFL Decree with Force of Law, NCh Chilean Standard, CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.