The North Face founder’s Chilean national parks dream comes true
22/03/2017
Mr Tompkins, who died in a kayaking accident in 2015, had lived in southern Chile for 25 years, during which time he had acquired substantial portions of land with conservation in mind. Ms McDivitt has now donated more than 400,000 hectares of that land to the national parks project and Chile’s government has committed to the conservation of a further 950,000 hectares for the same project.
At least three new national parks will come out of this and will have the names Pumalín, Melimoyu and Patagonia.
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