Chile has created five national parks, preserving large stretches of Patagonia, in a move that has been more than two decades in the making.
Over the past 20 years, US philanthropists Doug Tompkins and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins have acquired over 1 million acres of land, which – combined with land provided by the Chilean government – have resulted in this monumental act of conservation. The parks were signed into law on Monday by Chile’s president Michelle Bachelet.
