Route of Parks of Patagonia (Chile)
In January 2018, Chile and Tompkins Conservation signed the decrees creating a network of new national parks across Patagonia (Tompkins Conservation).
Image: Gonzalo Lastra via Wikimedia Commons (Valle de Chacabuco, Parque Patagonia, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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What was billed as the largest private land donation to a country helped create 10 million acres of new parks.
Tompkins Conservation gave 1 million acres and Chile added 9 million, for more than 10 million acres of new national parks (Tompkins Conservation).
Source: Tompkins Conservation, Decrees creating 10 million acres of new national parks (29 Jan. 2018)
Explain Like I'm 10
- Patagonia is a wild land of mountains, forests and grass at the bottom of South America.
- A conservation group bought land and gave it to Chile.
- Chile added even more, and together they made new national parks for everyone.
The Five W's of the Route of Parks
Who
The Government of Chile and Tompkins Conservation.
Source: Tompkins Conservation, Decrees creating 10 million acres of new national parks (29 Jan. 2018)
What
Five new national parks and the expansion of three others, including Pumalín and Patagonia.
Source: Tompkins Conservation, Decrees creating 10 million acres of new national parks (29 Jan. 2018)
When
Pledged in March 2017; decrees signed on 29 January 2018.
Source: Tompkins Conservation, Decrees creating 10 million acres of new national parks (29 Jan. 2018)
Where
Chilean Patagonia, from Pumalín to Patagonia National Park in the Chacabuco Valley.
Source: Tompkins Conservation, Decrees creating 10 million acres of new national parks (29 Jan. 2018)
Why
Big, connected national parks are the gold standard for stopping The variety of all living things in a place: plants, animals, fungi and tiny microbes. Glossary loss (Tompkins Conservation).
Source: Tompkins Conservation, Decrees creating 10 million acres of new national parks (29 Jan. 2018)
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More than 10 million acres of new parkland, about the size of Switzerland. Chile's national parklands grew by 38.5% in one signing (Tompkins Conservation).
Source: Tompkins Conservation, Decrees creating 10 million acres of new national parks (29 Jan. 2018)
The new parks are more than three times the size of Yosemite and Yellowstone combined (Tompkins Conservation).
How This Saves People & the Planet
For People
The parks are open to all and serve as sources of income and pride for neighbouring communities (Tompkins Conservation).
Source: Tompkins Conservation, Decrees creating 10 million acres of new national parks (29 Jan. 2018)
For Nature
Forests and wildlife across the parks are now protected at the highest level of conservation (Tompkins Conservation).
Source: Tompkins Conservation, Decrees creating 10 million acres of new national parks (29 Jan. 2018)
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