Patagonia National Park: Chile

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Andean condors soaring over snow-capped mountains. Waving grasslands where herds of guanacos roam. Mountain lions haunting the shadows . . . Patagonia National Park offers an extraordinary combination of natural beauty and abundant wildlife. Centered on southern Chile’s Chacabuco Valley, it showcases the fascinating natural and cultural history of this amazing windswept region at the end of the world. The park exists today due to a committed team of conservationists who forged an innovative public–private partnership catalyzed by private philanthropy

In Patagonia National Park: Chile, photographer Linde Waidhofer captures the region’s singular beauty. For more than a decade Waidhofer witnessed this national park’s founders—Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, the late Douglas Tompkins, and the Tompkins Conservation team—as they shepherded the land’s transition from former sheep ranch to world-class national park.

With contributions from former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, Yvon Chouinard, and others, Patagonia National Park: Chile invites readers to experience a place that is protected foremost as the home to its wild residents, and that offers human visitors a chance to reconnect with the land’s natural rhythms. Beyond this, the park’s creation is a globally notable example of “rewilding,” of helping nature heal, and ultimately of holding onto wild, radical hope for a future when all of life’s diversity, including people, has freedom to flourish and continue to evolve.

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Andean condors soaring over snow-capped mountains. Waving grasslands where herds of guanacos roam. Mountain lions haunting the shadows . . . Patagonia National Park offers an extraordinary combination of natural beauty and abundant wildlife. Centered on southern Chile’s Chacabuco Valley, it showcases the fascinating natural and cultural history of this amazing windswept region at the end of the world. The park exists today due to a committed team of conservationists who forged an innovative public–private partnership catalyzed by private philanthropy

In Patagonia National Park: Chile, photographer Linde Waidhofer captures the region’s singular beauty. For more than a decade Waidhofer witnessed this national park’s founders—Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, the late Douglas Tompkins, and the Tompkins Conservation team—as they shepherded the land’s transition from former sheep ranch to world-class national park.

With contributions from former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, Yvon Chouinard, and others, Patagonia National Park: Chile invites readers to experience a place that is protected foremost as the home to its wild residents, and that offers human visitors a chance to reconnect with the land’s natural rhythms. Beyond this, the park’s creation is a globally notable example of “rewilding,” of helping nature heal, and ultimately of holding onto wild, radical hope for a future when all of life’s diversity, including people, has freedom to flourish and continue to evolve.




Contenu
Prologue: Michelle Bachelet Foreword: Yvon Chouinard

Preface: Kristine McDivitt Tompkins

Geology at the End of the World: The Infinite Journey of Patagonia National Park: Juan Enrique Bostelmann

Mountains and Glaciers: Marcelo Mena

The Waters of the Park: Lito Tejada-Flores

Grasslands: The Patagonian Steppe: Federico Luebert

The Diversity and Beauty of the Forest: Ingrid Espinoza

Wildlife in Patagonia National Park: Cristian Saucedo

From Prehistory to History: Francisco Mena

Transformation from Estancia to National Park: Kristine McDivitt Tompkins

Rewilding Patagonia, Rewilding the Earth: Tom Butler

Communities and Their Parks: Nature as a Patrimony of the Spirit: Gilbert Butler

Douglas Tompkins, a Visionary Philanthropist: Juan Pablo Orrega

A First-Class Park: Francisco Morante

The Visitor Center: Leandro Panetta

The Triumph of Activism: Peter Hartmann

Photographing the Birth of a National Park: Linda Waidhofer