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 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 Jaguar Rivers Initiative is the first multi-country effort to create a massive wildlife corridor in the heart of South America. Uniting successful grassroots nonprofits in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay, the initiative will restore ecosystems, bring back...
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...
The release of a family of giant river otters marks a rewilding milestone in Argentina, where the last breeding population was sighted 40 years ago. The endeavor to bring back the apex freshwater predator from national extinction has been made possible by the...
A momentous first in Argentina! (Photographs by Sebastián Navajas) Miní, a wild jaguar born in the Ibera wetlands, thanks to releases from our offspring organization Rewilding Argentina, was translocated to El Impenetrable National Park, where she will be released in...
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...
The jaguar Mombyry was born on San Alonso Island in the wilds of Iberá Park, Corrientes Province, Argentina in 2022. Mombyry's journey from his place of birth is a great example of the tendency for juvenile jaguars, especially males, to travel from their home region,...
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...
From the Emmy Award-winning team behind Our Great National Parks comes a revealing look at the secret network of connections that unites us all and sustains our planet’s most magical phenomenon: life itself. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett, this...