Five years ago, on October 17th, 2007, two giant anteaters named Ivoty Porá and Preto stepped out of their traveling cages to begin a free life in the grasslands of Rincón del Socorro property, in the area of the Iberá wetlands. A small group of supporters—park...
For almost eleven years, Hector and Nancy Oyarzun have managed the picturesque and productive Hornopiren farm, part of the Pumalin Project. This farm lies only 60 miles (100 km) south of Puerto Montt by the Carretera Austral (the Southern Highway) making it more...
Once the reigning “king of the pampas,” the pampas deer now struggles to find a stretch of grass to call its own in the vanishing wilds of Argentina’s prairies. Once said to roam by the thousands throughout its namesake pampas (prairies, or plains, in English),...
You might think that advocates for wild places would oppose all road construction or improvement. Certainly, most road construction is a curse to natural systems: disrupting habitat, permitting exploitative development, and promoting fossil fuel consumption. Yet...
La agricultura afecta las tierras del planeta más que cualquier otra actividad humana. Por esta razón, estamos trabajando para desarrollar tipos de agricultura que sean más conscientes ecológicamente. Uno de los proyectos de agricultura más recientes e interesantes...
En un encuentro realizado hace poco en la Reserva Natural Iberá, un grupo de expertos en felinos grandes concluyeron que los humedales de esta zona son una ubicación ideal para reintroducir al jaguar. Con sólo 200 jaguares restantes en Argentina, la reintroducción del...
El trabajo de conservación que hacemos depende finalmente de nuestra habilidad de nutrir y comprender el entorno particular del lugar donde nos encontramos en un momento dado. Sin embargo, también podemos obtener conocimientos de conservación para el lugar donde...
Corcovado National Park is a 726,000-acre wilderness of shimmering lakes and snow-capped mountains anchored by the Corcovado volcano, often called “the Matterhorn of South America.” In 2005, Corcovado became Chile’s newest national park when then-president Ricardo...
Unfamiliar landscapes and new models for protecting them can provide invaluable insight for saving our home places. Field trips to different conservation projects combine work and play, giving invaluable perspective and forming new connections. In June and July,...
In upcoming weeks, we'll post news and stories from our conservation projects and other initiatives. Check back soon!En las próximas semanas, iremos publicando noticias e historias de nuestros proyectos de conservación y otras iniciativas. ¡Vuelve pronto!