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...
A Surprising Discovery in Patagonian Waters
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...
New Patagonia National Park Book
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....
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...
Chile Accepts Cape Froward Donation
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...
Peninsula Mitre – A Rare Global Climate Win
In Argentina, legislators of Tierra del Fuego Province have passed a law to permanently protect Peninsula Mitre. The last tip of the continent, it’s home to intact kelp forests and one of the largest peat reserves of South America, two powerhouse ecosystems crucial to...





