Acigami

Acigami is one of the lakes in the Tierra del Fuego island.The lakes depend on the streams that flow down from glaciers that remained in the valleys of the Fueguian Andes. The climate crisis and the current unprecedented rise in temperatures threatens the existence of these glaciers. We might be the last generation to see them. They maintain the balance of peat bogs. These are crucial ecosystems that act as carbon sinks in our planet and need high humidity to exist. The bogs in Tierra del Fuego are unique because their layers of peat have been forming uninterruptedly for more than 10,000 years. During 8,000 years prior to the arrival of settlers and their genocidal campaigns, the Selk’nam people lived freely in Tierra del Fuego and co-existed with the peat bogs. Their descendants resist the disappearance of their knowledge which can teach the world how to take care of biodiversity and unique ecosystems like those in the Patagonia region.