Conservation

A box that safeguards the soul of national parks

Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:05 Conservation

Photo: Amigos de los Parques de Chile

By Eugenio Rengifo

Recently, we lived a historic moment at Pumalin Douglas Tompkins Park, one that is laden with meaning for us as Chileans and for the entire planet. The parks “Patagonia” and “Pumalin Douglas Tompkins” were finally handed over to government of Chile and its citizens. During the ceremony celebrating the final transfer of the parks, their donor, Kris Tompkins, wanted to give Amigos de los Parques (Friends of the Parks) a symbolic and concrete mission, materialized in a box with each of the elements of the rainforest found at Pumalin.

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

Friday, 17 May 2019 18:04 Conservation

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.

Tompkins Conservation entrusts Pumalín and Patagonia parks to Chile

Saturday, 27 April 2019 14:28 Conservation

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.

Extinct in Argentina, the giant river otter returns to Esteros de Iberá

Saturday, 30 March 2019 17:04 Conservation

Lobo 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.

Researchers seek to protect the southernmost bats in the world

Wednesday, 27 February 2019 21:35 Conservation

Looking 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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