The inspired conservationists behind Chile's new national parks

The new land in Chile created two new National Parks and expanded two other national parks and one national reserve.

Conservationist responsible for new parkland now the ... - YouTube

When Kris Tompkins gave up her job as CEO of the Patagonia clothing company 30 years ago, she never imagined her life would become the ...

Chile creates five national parks over 10m acres in historic act of ...

The Chilean government provided the rest in federally controlled land. McDivitt Tompkins has spent 25 years working on land conservation in ...

Explore Chile - Tompkins Conservation News

In the decades since, Fundación Rewilding Chile has helped create seven new national parks and expand three others, propelling the vision of the Route of Parks ...

A New Era of Conservation on the Horizon - Legal Planet

They resigned, sold their shares, and moved to Pumalín in the Chilean Patagonia, a cold and isolated fjord between glaciers and primary forests.

Chile's Patagonia is a national treasure, thanks to a US billionaire

The Chilean part of Patagonia National Park is an environmental treasure trove. It is a true example of ecosystem conservation, meaning it's ...

A vision of beauty: How we helped Chile to create ten million acres ...

A team of consultants provided pro bono support to Tompkins Conservation to help make the economic case for Chile's new national parks.

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Through Tompkins Conservation and its offspring organizations, Rewilding Argentina and Rewilding Chile, she has helped to create or expand 15 ...

Patagonia National Park: The Story of One Couple's Commitment to ...

The conservation story behind the creation and continued protection of Patagonia National Park, Chile's newest national park.

North Face widow Tompkins donates land for Chile parks - BBC News

The agreement between the Chilean state and the Tompkins family marks a high point for conservation in Patagonia and shows how far relations ...

Values, Conflicts, and Narratives of Private Protected Areas

Over the past 30 years, Tompkins Conservation has carried out extensive work on nature conservation throughout southern Chile and Argentina, ...

Meet the adventurer: conservationist Kris Tompkins on reviving the ...

The business mogul-turned-environmental leader has been instrumental in the establishment of 13 new national parks and numerous rewilding ...

Rewilding public lands in Patagonia and beyond: Q&A with Kris ...

In the early 1990s, Kris and Doug Tompkins began buying up vast amounts of land in Chile and Argentina and setting it aside for conservation ...

How The Yellowstone Idea Still Reaches Around The World

Although Rewilding Chile mainly focuses on national parks, like in the United States, private lands often hold fundamental conservation values.

Tompkins Conservation donates huge national parks to Chile

Tompkins Conservation signs an agreement with Chile's government to donate 1 million acres for new national parks in the largest private ...

The Tompkins Land Donation: Shedding Light on Chile's ...

President Bachelet and Kristine Tompkins signed a pledge for the creation of 10 million new acres of national parks in March, 2017, but the ...

Patagonia National Park - Fundación Rewilding Chile

The park is home to our wildlife program, led in partnership with Tompkins Conservation and Conaf (Chile's National Forest Corporation, a part of the Chilean ...

Chile Creates 11 Million Acres Of New National Parks - IFLScience

It all started when the Tompkins Foundation agreed to donate 404,600 hectares (1 million acres) of their land to Chile for national parks to be ...

Making conservation history: Interview with Kris Tompkins

Today, altogether 4.5 million hectares (11 million acres) in Chilean Patagonia are now added to the country's national park system. Chile can ...

Patagonia Is Building Parks. Pay Attention - La Ruta de los Parques

This civilized plot in Chile's wild Aysén region holds the remains of Doug Tompkins. Doug, a cofounder of The North Face and Esprit, and his wife, Kristine, ...