READING the May 2020 edition of the National Geographic magazine, an article by David Quammen titled “A wild idea” caught my interest. The piece highlighted the conservation efforts of philanthropic American couple Kris and (the late) Doug Tompkins (died 2015), who would buy pockets of land in South America, specifically in the Chilean, Patagonian and Argentinian regions, and convert these areas into nature parks that they would then give back to the nations.
The couple founded Tompkins Conservation in the 2000s and it would eventually go on to fund more than 5,000,000ha of parkland that helped bring back previously endangered wildlife and provided ideal locations for biological research stations. With government cooperation, the endeavours have proven extremely successful over the past 25 years.
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