Botanist Adriana Hoffmann, who fought for Chile’s forests, dies at 82

Adriana Hoffmann, a botanist who traveled through Chile deciphering vegetation and tirelessly working as a scientist, activist, writer and policy maker to protect her country’s vast forests from corporate exploitation, died at her home in the capital, Santiago, on March 20. She was 82 years old. His daughter, Leonora Calderón Hoffmann, said she had been …