REWILDING ARGENTINA and BEYOND, Park by Park, Part 1
By Conservation Land Trust Argentina Wildlands explorer and philanthropist Doug Tompkins, who’d made his fortune by founding The North Face and Esprit, started buying and saving wildlands in southern Chile three decades ago, and accelerated his pace of land conservation after marrying Kris McDivitt Tompkins, former CEO of the outdoor company Patagonia. They soon were […]
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DYING GREEN — How your death can help wildlife
By Eddy Foundation Modern Westerners hide from death, delay it as long as possible, refuse to talk about it; then when it finally occurs to a loved one, spend thousands of dollars trying to keep that person from returning to the soil, with caskets and chemicals and tombstones. Cemeteries occupy some of the most fertile […]
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Safeguarding an Adirondack Wildlife Corridor, for Wildlife and People
By Jon Leibowitz, Executive Director of Northeast Wilderness Trust There is a place on the western shore of Lake Champlain where forest still dominates the landscape and bobcats, bear, otters, and mink can still wander from the lake to the high peaks of the Adirondacks through rocky hills and along river corridors. Stemming from Split […]
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