IN PATAGONIA, A NEW REHAB CENTER PROVIDES A LIFELINE TO THE AMERICAS' MOST ENDANGERED DEER Hunting and habitat loss has made the huemul deer one of the planet’s most endangered mammals, with approximately 1500 individuals remaining in the wild. A new rehabilitation...
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...
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...
Rewilding Chile has inaugurated the world’s first Huemul Rescue and Rehabilitation Center adjacent to Cerro Castillo National Park, home to 10% of the remnant population of the species, which has lost 99% of its historic population throughout Patagonia. The center...
The relocation of 16 guanacos to breeding centers in three nature sanctuaries in the Metropolitan Region of Chile, will invigorate a program to breed guanacos for release in Chile’s Central Andes. The effort relies on public-private collaboration to restore ecosystems...
A recent expedition led by Rewilding Chile has encountered a new subpopulation of huemul deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus) at the southern tip of South America in the future Cape Froward National Park. The discovery offers hope for the highly endangered species on the...
In the first international translocation of wild species for release in the Southern Cone, Rewilding Argentina and Rewilding Chile, offspring organizations of Tompkins Conservation, have brought 15 Darwin’s rheas across the Andes from Patagonia Park, Argentina to...
Working with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, the marine program of Rewilding Chile has discovered red hydrocorals in Chile’s Kawésqar National Marine Reserve, located in the Strait of Magellan. This rare and fragile species fosters one of the most biodiverse...
Published by Patagonia, an expansive new book offers a photographic journey through a former livestock ranch restored to become protected parklands. PATAGONIA NATIONAL PARK: CHILE, is now available everywhere books are sold. The lagoons of Patagonia National Park....
The government of Chile is taking steps to protect Cape Froward, a remote wilderness on the coast of the Brunswick Peninsula, the southernmost point of the South American continent. The move to create this new national park furthers Chile's commitment to taking...