Donate 400 hectares of land to Chile to create 5 protected parks

Donate 400 hectares of land to Chile to create 5 protected parks

It is the largest donation ever made by a private individual, over 400 thousand hectares where 5 protected natural parks will be born

It is the largest donation ever made by a private individual, over 400 thousand hectares where 5 parks will be born. The widow of Douglas Tompkins fulfills her missing husband's dream: to protect her biodiversity.





Despite it a millionaire, the founder of the US company North Face which produces clothing and accessories for the mountains, Tompkins was a staunch supporter of safeguard of biodiversity.

Natural habitats, woods, rivers and forests of Chile they were always at the center of his thoughts. Tompkins had spent half his life buying hectares upon hectares of land in Chile and Argentina. Uncontaminated lands on which the most disparate rumors had circulated.

There was, in fact, who had accused the millionaire of having bought the land for the sole purpose of burying American nuclear waste. Now, the puzzle has the solution.

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Tompkins Conservation donates huge national parks to Chile https://t.co/KEq7b9kClB / at @washingtonpost #NationalParks @presidencia_cl pic.twitter.com/6n8Yr7pngz

– Patagonia Park (@PatagoniaPark) March 16, 2017

Two years after his death, the widow gave 400 thousand hectares under the government of Chile to preserve biodiversity and thus create five new national parks.

“We see the loss of biodiversity as one of the greatest crises of our time,” said Tompkins, so he never stood alone and watched. Several donations, but this is the largest ever which also significantly raises the percentage of Chilean protected area.!

“It is the realization of the dream by Doug He understood the risks of climate change long before it was mentioned in the political debate. For Chile it's a great day, ”he said the widow.



In these terrains they will have to be created five new national parks, the Tompkins Foundation itself claims that natural areas will generate $ 270 million annually in ecotourism employing more than 40 people.

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Among the lands purchased and defended by the family there is also a part of the Patagonia which very soon will be sold to the Argentine government.

The conditions remain the same: all will have to be transformed into a protected area.

@parquepumalin #KristineTompkins @PatagoniaPark THANK YOU!!!!! #conservation pic.twitter.com/zpMfHiVvRd

– Felipe Carrasco (@FelipeCarrasma) March 17, 2017

Thanks to Tompkins, a man who fought a lifetime to save Chile from landowners and from speculation, coming to own over 890 thousand hectares in South America and then declare heritage to be preserved.



A key to understanding could be that of ransom, Tompkins had ended up in the storm because he was accused of his clothing releasing dangerous chemicals, so he decided to remedy it by giving something back to the environment.

UPDATE OF 31/01/2018

Now it's official. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet signed the decree to create five new national parks and expand three more. More than 10 million acres of new national parks will be created, virtually the same size as the whole of Switzerland. Parks in Chile will increase by 38,5 percent. The whole world thanks for these green lungs!

Dominella Trunfio

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