National Forest Corporation

CONAF Corporacion Nacional Forestal
Corporacion Nacional Forestal
Environmental overview
Formed1970
Preceding Environmental
  • "Reforestation Corporation" or COREF (Corporación de Reforestación')
Superseding Environmental
  • Ministry of Agriculture
TypeEnvironmental
JurisdictionNational
HeadquartersSantiago
MottoCONAF, for a sustainably forested Chile ("CONAF, por un Chile Forestal Sustentable")
Employeesmore than 1900
WebsiteCONAF official website

The National Forest Corporation or CONAF (Corporación Nacional Forestal) is a Chilean State-owned private non-profit organization, through which the Chilean state contributes to the development and sustainable management of the country's forest resources. CONAF is overseen and funded by the Ministry of Agriculture of Chile.[1]

It administers the forest policies of Chile and promotes the development of the sector with sustainable forest management.

CONAF is also the governing body of all the national parks of Chile, including those without forests or major vegetation, such as Llullaillaco National Park and others in the Atacama Desert.

A Coypu, the CONAF mascot
  1. ^ CONAF Quienes somos (ES) http://www.conaf.cl retrieved on November 13, 2014