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...
Commit then figure it out: The Wild Legacy of Doug Tompkins
This special edition blog post celebrates the life and work of Douglas Tompkins, who left us ten years ago today, much too soon. Of the countless seeds he planted in rewilding, conservation, agriculture and activism, many have taken root and continue to bloom....
Rewilding Beyond Borders: The First Southern Cone Collaboration to Translocate Wild Endemic Birds
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...
Kristine Tompkins at TED2024: Rewilding Beyond Borders
The latest TED Talk from Tompkins Conservation president and co-founder Kristine Tompkins offers a vision to connect ecosystems and keystone species beyond park boundaries and national borders, introducing the first of such initiatives. (Header Photograph by Gilberto...
Stanford University Brings the Tompkins Archives Home
Tompkins Conservation and its co-founders and benefactors, Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and the late Douglas R. Tompkins, are donating their personal archives as well as the archive of their conservation and rewilding work in South America to the Stanford University...




