President Gabriel Boric met with Kristine Tompkins on March 1 to move forward with a proposed donation of 230,000 acres on behalf of Tompkins Conservation and Rewilding Chile toward the creation of a future national park on Cape Froward. The forthcoming process of...
Tompkins Conservation, with help from Esri, is launching our first story map, an interactive form of storytelling, to share our own hopeful experience with rewilding. What’s at stake with the global biodiversity crisis? Everything. Latin America's biodiversity is down...
A new 5-part Netflix series, OUR GREAT NATIONAL PARKS, executive produced and narrated by Barack Obama, is now on the streaming service! The series features the spectacular wildlife and landscape of Patagonia National Park and other parks along the Route of Parks in...
On February 12, 2022, two Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) were released in Patagonia National Park. Satellite transmitters tracking their movements will provide vital details about their behavior, movements and relationships which can help us to create more effective...
PUERTO VARAS, Chile — After leading conservation efforts in Chilean Patagonia for over 28 years, the nonprofit created by Kristine and Douglas Tompkins launches a new name to reflect the central role of large-scale ecological restoration in fighting the biodiversity...
Tompkins Conservation Chile released 14 juvenile Darwin’s rheas into Patagonia National Park in the Aysén region of Chile. This is the fifth release carried out by this one-of-a-kind rewilding program to prevent the local extinction of this iconic bird. COCHRANE,...
Tompkins Conservation Chile, together with the community of El Amarillo, in the region of Los Lagos, implemented a restoration plan for the gateway village to Pumalín Douglas Tompkins Park. A new e-book tells the story. November 12, 2020. Improving the quality of...
The books Corcovado National Park, Yendegaia National Park and the 25-year Retrospective compile photographs and essays on nature and conservation, and will be available through Chile’s Public Library Network thanks to an alliance with the National Cultural Heritage...
Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, has contributed to the acquisition of three properties adjacent to Cerro Castillo National Park in Chilean Patagonia, which will be donated to the Chilean state in a few years. This purchase allows the...
Tompkins Conservation, with assistance from the Chilean parks service, has released fourteen Darwin’s rheas in Patagonia National Park to reestablish a sustainable wild population. The initiative is part of a broader plan to rewild Patagonia. Catorce ñandúes fueron...