Conservation

Funding Patagonia’s national parks: How the new deal announced by Chile will work

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Guanaco in Patagonia National Park. Photo: Linde Waidhofer. Guanaco in Patagonia National Park. Photo: Linde Waidhofer.
 
 
By Jimmy Langman and Evelyn Pfeiffer
 
The big question ever since Chile announced its Route of Parks in Patagonia last year was whether they could go beyond being merely paper parks and effectively protect the ecosystems inside those parks. Now, such concerns are beginning to fade, thanks to a new agreement announced by the Chilean government last week, which together with an international conservation coalition led by Tompkins Conservation and Pew Charitable Trusts is creating a permanent financing mechanism to improve and conserve the national parks of Patagonia.
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Tompkins Conservation entrusts Pumalín and Patagonia parks to Chile

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By Carolyn McCarthy, Tompkins Conservation - Concluding the largest private land donation in history, Kristine Tompkins, President of Tompkins Conservation and UN Patron of Protected Areas, made the formal hand over of Pumalín and Patagonia Parks to the Chilean state in a ceremony in Pumalín Douglas Tompkins Park. Representing the Chilean state were the Minister of Agriculture, Antonio Walker, and the Executive Director of Conaf, José Manuel Rebolledo.
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Extinct in Argentina, the giant river otter returns to Esteros de Iberá

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Lobo gargantilla. Photo: Ramón Moller JensenLobo gargantilla. Photo: Ramón Moller Jensen
 
 
Tompkins Conservation - The first giant river otters (Pteronura brasiliensis) have arrived to the Argentine province of Corrientes. The event is considered vital part of an ambitious rewilding project pioneered by CLT Argentina (Conservation Land Trust), the foundation created by Tompkins Conservation, in conjunction with the province of Corrientes, and the collaboration of diverse national entities. The arrival of Lobo, a four-year-old male from the Parken Zoo of Eskilstuna, Suecia, and Alondra, an eight-year-old female from the Budapest Zoo in Hungary, hails the return of the top aquatic predator to the Iberá wetlands.
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Researchers seek to protect the southernmost bats in the world

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Looking for individuals by telemetry from the summit of a hill in Tierra del Fuego. Photo: The TrackersLooking for individuals by telemetry from the summit of a hill in Tierra del Fuego. Photo: The Trackers
 
 
By Gonzalo Ossa
 
An unprecedented event in the winter of 2007 left the scientific community in shock. In the state of New York, thousands of bats were found dead in four caves, and its believed that numerous others had perished outside their shelters. This hypothesis coincided with an increase by a factor of ten in the number of dead specimens from the genus Myotis.
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Kawésqar National Park is established

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Photo: Antonio VizcainoPhoto: Antonio Vizcaino

 
Tompkins Conservation - At 2,842,329 hectares of virgin ecosystems, the new Kawésqar National Park has been created, making it the second largest national park in Chile after the Bernardo O´Higgins National Park (3.5 million hectares). Located in the Magallanes region, the park stems from an agreement signed between the Chilean government and Tompkins Conservation in March 2017. It establishes the creation of five new national parks (Melimoyu, Patagonia, Kawésqar, Cerro Castillo and Pumalin Douglas Tompkins) and the extension of three others (Hornopiren, Corcovado and Isla Magdalena).
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