With 10 Million Acres in Patagonia

With 10 Million Acres in Patagonia, a National Park System Is Born

The resulting 10 million-acre Patagonia National Park system is more than three times the size of the Yosemite and Yellowstone parks combined.

Determination And A Dream Help Create 10 Million Acre Patagonia ...

A 715-mile national park system stretching from Hornopirén, Chile, to the southern tip of South America. It's an area three times the size of Yosemite and ...

With 10 million acres in Patagonia, a national park system Is born

New York Times - An eagle soared over the lone house atop an arid hill in the steppes of Patagonia Park. In the valley below, not far from the town of Cochrane, ...

10 million acres of new national parks created in Chile | One Earth

The Chilean government and Tompkins Conservation are adding a total of more than 10 million acres of new national parklands to Chile, an area that's larger ...

With 10 Million Acres in Patagonia, a National Park System Is Born

Two Americans snapped up large swaths of land in Chile, which they donated to a new conservation area that will be three times the size of ...

Chile Just Created 10 Million New Acres of National Parks

That's because the president established five national parks spanning more than 10 million acres in total on Monday, a swath of territory nearly ...

With 10 Million Acres in Patagonia, a National Park System Is Born

With 10 Million Acres in Patagonia, a National Park System Is Born ... Two Americans snapped up large swaths of land in Chile, which they donated ...

With 10 Million Acres in Patagonia, a National Park System Is Born

"An eagle soared over the lone house atop an arid hill in the steppes of Patagonia Park. In the valley below, not far from the town of ...

Chile Designates 10 Million Acres of Land as National Parks

The Chilean government's promise to protect roughly 10 million acres of land became official, boosting the nation's parklands by 38.5 percent.

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

President Bachelet signs 'unprecedented' measure into law after founder of Patagonia firm donates 1m acres of private land.

Chile creates national parks from donated land - BBC

The government signed a deal with Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, who worked with late husband Doug for decades to protect areas of Patagonia. Mr ...

How Kristine Tompkins Helped Conserve 15 Million Acres in ...

Doug Tompkins; the Tompkinses on the coast of Chilean Patagonia (Photos: Courtesy Scott Soens; Courtesy Tompkins Conservation).

History's Largest Land Donation Gives Chile 10 Million Acres of ...

On Monday, Chile's President Michelle Bachelet and Kristine Tompkins—the founder and CEO of Tompkins Conservation—signed the largest national ...

10 Million Acres Added to Chile's Parks | Organikos

“This is not just an unprecedented act of preservation,” said [Chile's President Michelle] Bachelet, who flew to this remote Patagonian valley ...

With 10 Million Acres In Patagonia, a National Park System Is Born

Sign the Declaration. When you sign the Nature Needs Half Declaration you publicly declare your support for a respectful relationship with ...

Chile Just Converted 11 Million Acres Into New National Parks

This donation will aid efforts in “rewilding” Patagonia, an effort to roll back decades of development and deforestation. The Chilean government ...

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

The new national parks will expand Chile's national parklands by nearly 40 percent. They will serve as the cornerstones of the Route of Parks.

President of Chile and CEO of Tompkins Conservation Sign ...

Together, they are adding a total of more than 10 million acres of new national parklands to Chile, with one million acres of land from Tompkins ...

Patagonia National Parks: Chile make a reality one of the last great ...

Thus WWF Chile highlighted the official creation of the Patagonia National Parks Network, whose decree was signed by President Bachelet. "With these 10 million ...

How Patagonia's former CEO protected nature in South America - NPR

We committed ourselves to saving as much wild habitat as we could, at first by simply buying land, ultimately acquiring over 2 million acres of key habitat in ...