During the social outbreak of 2019, residents of the El Tabo commune decided to protect one of the last natural treasures of the V region, the Gota de Leche dune field. To preserve this place, the organized community creates a citizen movement that in 2020 requests the Chilean Ministry of the Environment to create a new Nature Sanctuary. However, the efforts and dreams of the movement confront the real estate and extractivist interests of the land owners, in addition to the passive complicity of local authorities.
Almost four years after the beginning of the process, the destruction continues and the fight continues.