Tag: Tompkins Conservation

• Tuesday, March 25th 2025 - 08:21 UTC

  Non-flying birds relocated from Argentina to Chile where they neared extinction

  

  Conservationist groups from Chile and Argentina have undertaken a project to transfer 15 Patagonian rheas (also known as choiques) from Argentina’s Patagonia Park in Santa Cruz to Chile’s Patagonia National Park in the Aysén Region, in an initiative led by Rewilding organizations of both countries and supported by the Tompkins Conservation Foundation.

• Tuesday, December 11th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Argentina creates a 395.000 acres marshlands park; land donated by the Tompkins Conservation

  

  A new national park in Argentina that will help protect the country’s incredible wetlands, forests and grasslands well into the future, as well as putting a new part of the country on travelers’ maps has been given the green light by the Argentine government.