Ex-CEO of Patagonia firm donates 1m acres of private land
President Bachelet signs ‘unprecedented’ degree into law
Chile has created five sprawling national parks to preserve huge tracts of Patagonia – the culmination of more than two decades of land acquisition by the US philanthropists Doug Tompkins and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and the largest donation of private land to government in South America.
The five parks,spanning 10.3m acres, were signed into law on Monday by Chile’s president Michelle Bachelet, and launching a new 17-park route that stretches down the southern spine of Chile to Cape Horn.
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Source: guardian.co.uk