Conservation

 

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).

 

 

 

Gone are the days of big multinational timber companies targeting Chilean forests. The last big threat along those lines was the Trillium company of the United States, whose vast forest holdings on the Chilean side of Tierra del Fuego Island were bought up by New York investment back Goldman Sachs in 2002 and converted into Karukinka park.