In 1993, Chile adopted an Indigenous Law that enabled land restitution; by 2023 more than 510,000 acres had been returned to Mapuche communities, but native forest cover had barely changed

• Over the following 30 years, more than 510,000 acres were returned to the Mapuche, Chile's largest Indigenous group.
• However, a long-term study found that native forest cover on these lands has changed very little.