This week, Kristine McDivitt Tompkins announced that they would be handing over the land purchased by the couple’s non-profit for conservation back to the Chilean government. Patagonia National Park and Pumalín National Park will return to Chile’s National Park system. The one million acres are being stated as the largest conservation donation from a private entity to a country. The Tompkins left their careers in the early 1990s to solely focus on conservation and established their nonprofit, Tompkins Conservation. Bear in mind, the area preserved and nurtured by Tompkins Conservation is the size of Switzerland.

Source: Forbes February 01, 2018 04:16 UTC