A Wilder World: Rewilding Chile and Argentina
3 Episodes
When Kristine Tompkins and her late husband Douglas Tompkins left the corporate world for the extraordinary wilderness of southern Chile, they started a trailblazing conservation journey that has protected millions of hectares across the southernmost country in the world and its neighbour, Argentina. In 1991, they began purchasing threatened and degraded land whose future they could rewrite. With help from local scientists and volunteers, they took these landscapes, devoid of their once rich biodiversity, and started to restore them with the eventual view of donating the land to the countries as national parks. “Once we understood that we could change the outcome of these territories in the long-term, that’s what motivated us,” Tompkins says.
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03:04Episode 3Healing Argentina's Ecosystems
Episode 3
At the “little school of the macaw” in Corrientes, Argentina, birds rescued from captivity are being taught how to survive in the wild again. When its “students” are ready, the team at Rewilding Argentina will release them back into their natural habitats to recover their roles in seed dispersal....
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02:59Episode 2
Chile Bounces Back
Episode 2
Since land across the Patagonian Steppe was converted into a national park, Rewilding Chile has been working to reinstate the native flora and fauna to the area. The team started by removing hundreds of kilometers of fencing, which broke up the land into sections and prevented animals from moving...
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02:13Episode 1
A Wild Idea
Episode 1
Thirty years ago, Kristine Tompkins and Douglas Tompkins left the corporate world to start a trailblazing conservation journey, rebuilding ecosystems in Argentina and Chile. Today, the work initiated by Tompkins Conservation is being continued by offspring organizations Rewilding Chile and Rewild...
