JAGUARS GO FROM ZERO TO 50: A REWILDING MILESTONE AND THE FIRST-EVER RECORDED VISITOR SIGHTING For the first time, visitors to Iberá National Park have been able to observe and document a wild jaguar roaming free in the 2-million-acre park. While Rewilding Argentina’s...
Chile’s vast kelp forests promise climate refuge with a warning
Discoveries of the PATAGONIAN MEGATRANSECT: Chile’s vast kelp forests promise climate refuge with a warning With the support of national and international organizations, nonprofit Rewilding Chile is surveying one of the largest intact kelp forests on the planet, home...
Rewilded condors find a haven in Patagonia
The Manku Project has released three rehabilitated Andean condors in Patagonia National Park, Chile. Researchers have outfitted them with satellite and radio transmitters to collect key data about their health and use of habitat. So far, the decade-long program has...
Kris Tompkins becomes a Rolex Testimonee
We are excited to announce that our president and co-founder Kristine Tompkins is now a Rolex Testimonee. Kris says, “With this great opportunity, we will spotlight biodiversity loss and climate chaos, issues we must all address for the future of the planet. We hope...
Penguin-hunting pumas upend predator norms
In Argentina’s Monte León National Park, the recovery of pumas, the top terrestrial predator, has created surprising behavior that transforms our understanding of the species' social structure. The pumas preying on Magellanic penguins along the Patagonian coast show a...
Guanacos return to El Impenetrable
An unlikely but crucial return: guanacos come back to El Impenetrable after 110 years A group of guanacos, South America’s largest wild camelid, have been set free in Argentina’s El Impenetrable National Park in the Gran Chaco to aid in the recovery of one of the...
First Wild Jaguar Cub Discovered in the Argentine Chaco
Local nature guides have documented the presence of a wild jaguar cub on the banks of the Bermejo River in El Impenetrable National Park. It’s the first offspring of the species seen in decades in the Argentine Chaco. The cub was sighted with its mother Nalá, one of...
The First Release of Ocelots in Iberá Park
Two ocelots released in Iberá Park make history as the first pair to begin the recovery of their species. This new rewilding project seeks to reintroduce the species to Iberá Park in Northeastern Argentina, where it was driven to extinction during the twentieth...
The Superdads of Patagonia National Park
#1 Dad award goes to: Alas and Douglas are two Darwin’s rhea males who have been key in reversing the decline of their species in Patagonia National Park, Chile. For years these breeders have been boosting the wild rhea population while based at the Darwin’s Rhea...
Data that Makes a Difference
Finalist for ESRI’s Best StoryMaps of 2023: Rewilding Chile’s "Wildlife monitoring with camera traps'' is a finalist in this year's ArcGIS StoryMap competition! Go behind the scenes with this fascinating interactive story to see how camera traps are vital to...









