A

PARTNERSHIP
WITH NATURE

Large natural landscapes are sources of inspiration,

beauty and development for human societies, while
acting as the main home for the other co-citizens of our
planet.

Tompkins Conservation (TC) is the umbrella name for

a diverse range of conservation initiatives directed by
Kristine and Douglas Tompkins to create national
parks, sustain biodiversity, restore degraded lands,
reintroduce missing species and encourage
environmental activism.

In Argentina, TC works through two entities; The

Conservation Land Trust Argentina (CLTA) and
Fundación Flora y Fauna Argentina (FFyFA). Both
organizations share the same vision and mission and
work in close cooperation in several projects in
Argentina.
 MISSION

Our mission is to establish new parklands, help to restore and rewild

landscapes and marine ecosystems, promote direct benefits to rural
communities and foster a culture of activism in which people love
and defend the wild world.

By 2026 we want to create at least 10 new national parks covering

around two million hectares that protect tropical, subtropical and
temperate terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and that these parks
provide direct benefits to more than 15 rural communities and
200,000 people.
 VISION

Our vision includes complete natural ecosystems where species of fauna

and flora thrive in perpetuity. Thanks to the fact that these ecosystems
can be enjoyed and visited by a large number of people, the human
communities that surround them find in Nature their main source of
prosperity and well-being.
 VALUES

/ Sharing the world with other creatures / We consider that both human and nonhuman life on Earth have value in themselves and should be cared for equally.

/ Beauty as a basic / Beauty is a value that is intrinsic to all living things. It is not a mere sentimental and idiosyncratic human effect, but our way to describe our encounters
with vitality, life affirmative patterns and relationships, it is our shorthand with those experiences that exceed survival and enable us to flourish in a life of quality.

/ Public spaces / We believe in the role of the states to care for and manage natural landscapes and the importance that these can be visited by the greatest number of local
and global citizens.

/ Constant action and commitment / We believe in the proactive care of natural ecosystems, both in terms of restoring habitats, as well as bringing back the species that
were lost, in promoting an culture of activism against those who seek to destroy the public goods for the benefit of a few, and empowering local groups so they can benefit
from this natural heritage.

/ Ecolocalism/ We believe that we can build the next economy on a regional level around national parks, by working on regenerative production. By working on conservation
as a consequence of production, rural communities can achieve wellbeing and feel proud about the place they live in.
 ACHIEVEMENTS

Douglas Tompkins creates The
Conservation Land Trust or CLT and
moves full-time to South America to start
creating new national parks.
Monte León National Park is created in Santa Iberá Provincial Park is created protecting  
Cruz province as result of a large land donation 1,358,500 acres (550,000 hectares).
1997 carried out by CLT and its sister organization
Conservacion Patagonica.
2007

1992 CLT begins its first project in Argentina by

purchasing Estancia San Alonso, a cattle ranch
2004
in the middle of the Iberá wetlands. In the
subsequent decade, CLT purchases almost
350,000 acres for conservation and grassland
restoration in the area.
The first giant anteaters are reintroduced in Iberá.
Today there are more than 100 individuals living in
2009
the wild. This project was followed by the
reintroduction of pampas deer, tapirs, collared
peccaries and green-winged macaws.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Impenetrable National Park is created in Chaco
province as result of a grass-root movement and a
large donation lead by CLT.Donation of the porperty "El 2015
Rincon" to expand the Perito Moreno National Park .
2014 Patagonia National Park is created in Santa
Cruz to include lands donated by CLT and its
sister organization Fundación Flora y Fauna
Argentina. The first jaguar arrives to Iberá Park
after half a century of absence in the region.
CLT donates lands in the Iberá wetlands to the
Argentinean government to establish Iberá
National Park.
2017
2016 CLT starts working with authorities and local NGOs to
create the first marine national parks in Argentina.
A bill to create the first two marine national parks in the
Argentine Sea is presented in Congress.
 427,600
hectares

1,056,000
5 6 250
acres

D O NAT E D LA ND PA R K S C R E ATE D R EI N TR O DUCED R EI N TR O DUCED

SPECI ES AN I MAL S
STAFF
DO IT WITH THE HEART

We are a group of conservationists from different regions and

professions, united by our love for wildlands and the people who
live around them.

Since 1997, CLT has been building one of the most experienced
teams in Latin America in the creation of national parks, wildlife
management and rewilding, establishment of ecotourism
destinations, training of conservation agents and local
entrepreneurs and local development. Most of this team lives
directly in the parks that we help create, interacting with
authorities and local stakeholders, as well as with the wildlife that
lives in these reserves.

Additionally we have generated a national management team,

mostly based in Buenos Aires, focused on communication,
institutional and political relations, legal aspects related to the
establishment and management of protected areas, activism
campaigns,, land purchase and finance.
 WHY ARGENTINA

Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world, its territory extending from the Tropic to Antarctica, and from vast plains to the highest peaks in South America. As a result,
the country hosts a great diversity of natural environments: rainy jungles, cloudy forests, wetlands, sabanas and tropical grasslands: deserts, prairies, template steppes, coastal
wetlands, ice fields and one of the most productive seas in the planet.

The country has the privilege of having what is possibly the best National park service in Latin America, and a mostly urban population that favors the existence of great wild
areas with low human density.

Additionally, President Macri’s administration is willing to double the surface covered by national parks in the country and is clearly moving towards this direction. Within the
last two years, the National Government enlarged the Natural Reserve Otamendi, Perito Moreno National Park and Patagonia National Park, and created Pinas, Aconquija and
Ibera National Parks as well as the Natural Reserve Isla de los Estados. It also expanded the national park network towards the Argentine Sea and there is a bill in Congress to
create the first two marine national parks in the country, Yaganes and Burdwood Bank II.
 N AT I O N A L
PARKS
LARGE TERRITORIES

FULL PRESERVED FOREVER

NATURE
BUILDING THE BRIDGE BETWEEN ECOLOGY AND ECONOMY
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FULL COMPLETE
After more than 15 years working in Argentina, we developed our own ECOSYSTEMS
DEVELOPED RURAL
model to step into the next economy through the creation of national
COMMUNITIES
N AT U R E REWILDNG
parks that can become economic engines for local communities. We
named it “Full Nature” and it seeks to build a new territorial model where
large national parks with their full ecological components become
ecotourism destinations that promote economic development, local
knowledge and pride in neighboring communities.

ECOTURISM
INFRASTRUCTURE – TERRITORIAL BRAND
LOCAL PRODUCTION
“NATIONAL PARKS ARE ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPRESSIONS
OF DEMOCRACY” Douglas Tompkins

NATIONAL PARKS
National parks represent the gold-standard of conservation and
sustainable use of natural ecosystems. They are public spaces open to
visitation by all the world citizens and have a strong legal status that
guarantees their permanence in the long term. In the words of Douglas
Tompkins, co-founder of CLT: "national parks have a lot of benefits. One of
them is that they get people out into Nature. They disregard one’s
social-economic status. They represent a good form of social equity. They
belong to everyone".
REWILDING

COMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS
Through rewilding, national parks and other natural reserves are brought
to their maximum natural expression, healing the wounds caused by
unsustainable human activities, bringing back the species that were lost in
the area or ensuring the permanence of those that are currently
threatened
TERRITORIAL BRAND

When parks can be displayed at their maximum natural expression,

especially with abundant and easy-to-see wildlife, an ecotourism
destination can be established to promote a new economy for
ECO TOURISM
neighboring communities. From CLT we work to turn our national parks
into territorial brands that encourage large-scale and regulated visitation
that brings new resources to these regions.
HABITAT HUMANITAS

The creation of a territorial brand and ecotourism destination around

parks favors that public and private development organizations choose to COMMUNITY DEVELOMPENT
invest in local communities. Thus, rural communities that were previously
deprived of adequate public investment and even self-esteem, are
chosen to apply national and international sustainable development
agendas. Our multi dimensional program that works on community
development is called “Habitat Humanitas”.
 BOLIVIA
BRASIL
PARAGUAY

PARQUE NACIONAL
FOZ DO IGUAÇU

TERRITORIAL PARQUE
PARQUE NACIONAL
EL IMPENETRABLE PARQUE NACIONAL
IGUAZU
ACONQUIJA

VISION MAP PARQUE

ESTEROS DEL IBERÁ

CHILE

URUGUAY

DELTA
DEL PLATA

BLUE MARINE CORRIDOR

DELTA DEL PLATA RIVER CORRIDOR

ARGENTINA
PATAGONIAN MOUNTAIN BIOCORRIDOR PARQUE NACIONAL
PUMALIN PARQUE NACIONAL
LOS ALERCES
PARQUE NACIONAL
CORCOVADO PUNTA TOMBO
PARQUE NACIONAL
BIOCEANIC BINATIONAL CORRIDOR, ARGENTINA/CHILE MALILOYU PARQUE NACIONAL
PATAGONIA
GOLFO SAN JORGE
PARQUE NACIONAL
PATAGONIA

PARQUE NACIONAL
NORTHERN CORRIDOR PERITO MORENO RÍO DESEADO
TORRES DEL PAINE
PARQUE NACIONAL
LOS GLACIARES

PARQUE NACIONL MONTE LEÓN

KAWESCAR

NATIONAL PARKS PARQUE NACIONAL

DEL FIN DEL
PARQUE NACIONAL MUNDO
PARQUE NACIONAL
ALBERTO DE
MARINO
AGOSTINI
BINACIONAL PARKS BURDWOOD II

PARQUE NACIONAL
YANDEGAIA

PARQUE NACIONAL
CABO DE HORNOS MARINO
YAGANES
STARTING YEAR: 1999
ACQUIRED TERRITORY: 380,000 acres / 154,000 hectares
LOCATION: Corrientes Province

Iberá brings together a national protected area together with a provincial one, to
create the largest park in Argentina with around 700,000 total hectares. The
center of this great subtropical plain harbors the vast wetland or “estero”. Around
it, a great diversity of environments can be found; the alto-parana atlantic forests,
chaco forest, espinal and open grasslands. Since 1999, CLTA has purchased
almost 150,000 hectares and already donated 80,000 to the National

IBERÁ PARK
Government to create the Ibera National Park. The remaining donation is planned
for the end of the current year. Additionally CLTA worked to promote the legal
protection of 1,358,500 acres (550,000 hectares) of land as a provincial park.

Ibera hosts some go the largest populations in the world of marsh deer and,
strange-tailed tyrant. These wetlands are home to thousands of capybaras and
yacare caimans, while in its grasslands and sabanas, rheas, southern viscacha,
and the mysterious maned wolf, thrive.

As a result of CLTA’s rewilding program, the last years have seen regionally
extinct species come back to their original habitat. The anteater, pampas deer,
tapir, collared peccary and the spectacular green-winged macaw, which had
been extinct for around 100 years in the whole country, are already completing
the beauty of this generous land. Hopefully, in a short period of time the presence
of the authentic king of Ibera, the jaguar, will be felt again.
FULL NATURE STATUS

NATIONAL PARK

Territorially, the park is already created. 70,000 hectares still need to be

donated to the National Government, and the bill to create the park is
currently in Congress.

COMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS AND REWILDING

We have ongoing programs for reintroducing almost all the regionally

IBERÁ PARK
extinct species. We still want to reintroduce bare-faced curassow and
giant otter.. Our objective is to generate a complete ecosystem in the next
five years and to achieve the carrying capacity of the territory.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Achieve a thriving regional economy for three rural communities (Carlos

Pellegrini, San Miguel and Concepcion). We already started working in
Carlos Pellegrini.
STARTING YEAR: 2014
ACQUIRED TERRITORY: 316,000 acres / 128,000
LOCATION: Chaco Province

The Chaco is the largest dry subtropical forest in the world, shared by Brazil,
Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina. Most of this ecosystem (62%) is located in
Argentina, where it has suffered a systematic degradation by intensive logging,
forest settlements, cattle grazing, and most significantly soy bean plantations that
have destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares of these forests. Within the
Argentinean Chaco, “La Fidelidad”, a 250,000 hectare property located in the
provinces of Chaco and Formosa, represents a unique place that has remained in
excellent conservation conditions.

In 2014, after the owner of La Fidelidad was murdered, a group of NGOs, led by EL IMPENETRABLE
Tompkins Conservation, through FFyFA, strongly encouraged the creation of “El
Impenetrable National Park (EINP)”, comprising 130,000 hectares of La Fidelidad
property within the Argentinean province of Chaco.

The 130,000 hectares EINP are aimed to conserve ecosystems that are
representative of the Chaco region (i.e. Chaco dry forest, the gallery forest of the
Teuco and Bermejito rivers, grasslands and wetlands) and their native wildlife, so
they can act as development engines for neighboring communities, through an
ecotourism service-based economy. EINP supports a significant sample of the
biodiversity found within the Gran Chaco ecoregion. These includes more than
13,000 vascular plant species, more than 120 mammal species including jaguar,
giant armadillo, giant anteater, tapir, the endemic Chacoan peccary and the
secretive maned wolf, as well as more than 400 bird species.

The five main towns surrounding La Fidelidad, each, with marginal logging and
cattle farming as main economic activities, could be greatly benefited by the
creation of a new ecotourism destination. Locals host cultural values (handicrafts,
music and gastronomy) that are adapted to this harsh environment and could
serve as touristic assets, if well presented.
FULL NATURE STATUS

NATIONAL PARK

National Park: Only half of the projected park has been created. Half of the
property is on the northern bank of the Bermejo River, in the province of
Formosa. This property is key as it would block the entrance of poachers
to the park, that currently access through this province. Provincial political
relations need to be developed in Chaco and Formosa. .
IBERÁ PARK
COMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS AND REWILDING

Complete ecosystems and rewilding: Reintroduction of guanacos, marsh

deer, giant otter,, yaguar and other regionally extinct or threatened
species. The baseline inventory needs to be done.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Training of local nature and birdwatching guides. Generate entrepreneurs

that can specialize in floating, photographic safari and tracking.
STARTING YEAR: 2012
ACQUIRED TERRITORY: 370,000 acres / 150,000 hectares (130,000 acres / 53,000
hectares are already a National Park)
LOCATION: Santa Cruz, Patagonia

In July 2014, the Patagonia National Park Argentina was created. We are in the
process of purchasing 494,000 more acres (200,000 hectares) towards the
border with Chile to amount a total land acquisition of 350,000 hectares. Besides,
two provincial parks are expected to be added, resulting in a total protected area
of 1,012,700 acres (410,000 hectares). We aim to create a Bi-National Park of up to
1,901,900 acres (770,000 hectares) with a unified vision between National Parks in
Argentina and Chile. This vision includes actions that will aim to establish a
common approach to wildlife management, and a shared vision of community
involvement and the development of transboundary tourism.
PATAGONIA
The national park hosts the Buenos Aires Plateau which is an almost uninhabited
area of harsh climate and beauty, holding the only flatland glacier in South
America, and being known as the mythical cradle of the now-extinct Tehuelche
people, the plateau contains numerous archeological sites with prehistoric
remains and art. The plateau is also the core habitat of the critically endangered
hooded grebe: monitoring and recovery programs are being implemented for
helping the population to rebound.

Patagonia National Park is expected to develop into a major tourism destination

and economic development tool for four local communities. The future
expansion of the park includes an already acquired property that includes a
World Heritage site, Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands). Along the Pinturas
River, where the cave is located, at least 70 archeological sites are known,
recording continuous human presence for more than 9,000 years. The bi-national
circuit should provide a wide range of experiences and recreational opportunities
with minimal infrastructure in order for visitors to experience a landscape largely
untrammeled by humankind, with ample opportunities for self-guided recreation
and solitude.
FULL NATURE STATUS

NATIONAL PARK

Existing small Patagonia National Park. We need to expand it to 1,012,700

acres (410,000 hectares). and create a bi national park with Chile.

COMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS AND REWILDING

IBERÁ PARK
Generate a local rewilding team to work on guanaco translocation and
instal trap cameras to understand puma behaviour. Reintroduction of
South Andean deer, southern river otter and torrent duck. Elimination of
exotic species that threaten the survivor of the critically endangered
hooded grebe.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Training of local nature and birdwatching guides. Generate entrepreneurs

that can specialize in floating, photographic safari and tracking.
LOCATION: Chubut Province

In the northern coast of Golfo San Jorge, Patagonic coast, there is a small
interjurisdictional marine coastal Park, called “Patagonia Austral”. It is one of the only
marine - coastal parks in the country, and it urgently needs to be enlarged in its protection
of land and sea, and recategorized to a national park to be effectively protected.

The future Patagonia Austral Coastal National Park, could include more than 200 km of
irregular coast and more than 60 islands where an important number of species of
migratory birds and mammals reproduce. It would be positive to have at least 100,000
hectares of land in the area dedicated to conservation. The terrestrial ecosystems are
characterized for containing representative samples of the Patagonia steppe, with a great THE PATAGONIA
AUSTRAL COASTAL
amount of streams and temporary lagoons, which increase locally the diversity of birds
and insects.

13 out of the 16 marine bird species that nest in Argentina do it in the area, in 21 breading
colonies populated with 1 to 7 sea bird species each. Some of the species that can be
NATIONAL PARK:
found are blue-eyed cormorant, rock cormorant, the endemic Chubut steamer suck and
the olrog’s gull, considered to be an internationally threatened species. The sea lions A NEW OPPORTUNITY
colony on the islands reaches up to 4.000 individuals, representing around 20% of the total
population which inhabit the San Jorge Gulf area. The richness of the area also attracts the
presence of killer whales, dolphins and commerson’s dolphin. There is also an enormous
amount of guanacos, lesser rheas and Patagonian Cavy, as well as presence of
patagonian maras and armadillos.

Our ultimate goal is to create a Park that protects and restores the terrestrial and marine
ecosystems so that future generations can observe and enjoy the Patagonian landscapes
in their maximum splendour, and create a next economy that can maintain all the species
in healthy numbers.
FULL NATURE STATUS

NATIONAL PARK

Enlarge and recategorize the interjurisdictional Patagonia Austral Park and

create a national park that extends at least 6 miles towards the sea and 6
miles inland.

COMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS AND REWILDING

Recover native wildlife species, increase their numbers and restore the
ecological processes they were part of, with special emphasis in intertidial
marine ecosystems, in such a way that this park spills wildlife over
neighboring areas, and from here to other regions in Patagonia (sea and
land)

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Work with the community of Camarones (1,500 inhabitants) to create a

next economy in the area.
 BI-NATIONAL VISION

We strongly believe in our active conservation model of “Full Nature” and the role of national parks as economic engines for the next economy. On the long term, we dream of
the South American continent actively working towards this idea. The first step towards this wild dream is to start working on the creation of bi-national parks and ecotourism
circuits.
 PARQUE PARQUE
ARGENTINA/CHILE PATAGONIA CHILE PATAGONIA ARGENTINA

PATAGONIA BI-NATIONAL PARK

On a long term, we want to achieve an eco tourism bi-national corridor that runs
from Pumalin National Park down to the National Parks in Tierra del Fuego.
Currently, we are working towards the creating of the Patagonia Bi-national Park
and starting to work on a bi-national marine and terrestrial vision in the
southermost regions of both countries.

We are promoting local communities´ identification with a “Patagonia Bi-national

Circuit” that will facilitate the creation of a Bi-national Park in each of the two
countries involved. Additionally, we aim to establish a common approach to
wildlife management, and a shared vision of community involvement and the
development of transboundary tourism

BI-OCEANIC PEACE PARK

We are working towards a bi-national corridor of protected areas through land

and sea that could also be an opportunity to attract international ecotourism.
Starting in the magnificent mountains of Kaweskar National Park, crossing the
Alberto Agostini National Park, and all the way through Yendegaia, the Darwin
mountain range unites both countries. On the Argentine side, the Tierra del Fuego
National Park shares its western boundary with Yendegaia representing a unique
opportunity for a bi-national vision. A natural reserve through the high peaks
would unite this protected area with the provincial marine and terrestrial park in
Peninsula Mitre and the national reserve "Isla de los Estados".

Through the ocean, the Cape Horn Marine Protected area unites with the
Yaganes Marine Protected Area and extends all the way through the Blue Whale
Sanctuary, creating a wildlife corridor in a very important migratory route and
feeding ground for several marine mammals and birds. The corridor ends in the
marine protected areas Burdwood Bank I and II. This could be the first bi-oceanic
protected area in the world.
 PROGRAMS

NATIONAL REWILDING PROGRAM

CLTA is carrying out in Iberá, the most ambitious project of multi-species reintroduction in South America. After twelve years of experience on reintroducing extinct wildlife in
Ibera, we are certain that this is a great conservation strategy to complete degraded ecosystems. This is especially true in Argentina, where most protected areas are devoid
from their key original species, mostly birds and mammals. This is why we want to escalate this strategy to a national level and create a culture of active conservation in the
country. We need to recover populations of yaguar, pampas deer, guanaco in Northern Argentina, marsh deer, tapir, green-winged macaw, harpy eagle , bare-faced curassow,
giant otter, collared and white-lipped peccary, south Andean deer, southern river otter and anteater.

To achieve this, we need to strengthen the rewilding team and our logistic capacity. Most importantly, we need to keep changing the culture in the public administration,
mainly the National Park Administration and the Ministry of Environment, so that they support and pursue active conservation.
HABITAT HUMANITAS

Habitat Humanitas is CLT’s innovative rural community development program. It has a multidimensional approach, based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals - SDG’s -
of the United Nations and the eleven topics central to the quality of our lives, developed by OECD. The importance that where you live has an impact on your quality of life, and
in return, you contribute to making your community a better place, results imperative to these communities surrounding the conservation areas. Habitat Humanitas works
building the social fabric, collecting the data to learn about the situation and the needs of the communities and finally elaborating the projects to create wellbeing and
development programs to be implemented.
MARINE PROGRAM

Since 2017, CLT started working on creating marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Argentine EEZ. Since then, we achieved to push a bill into Congress to create the first two
marine national parks in the country in the southern region of the Argentine Sea, Yaganes and Burdwood Bank II.
 ARGENTINA

MARINE
LONG TERM VISION
MARINE BLUE ROUTE
Punta Tombo
In the near future we want to start working on the Marine Blue Route, that
will include 4 marine-coastal protected areas along the Patagonian coast.
Bahía Bustama nte
This route includes one of the greatest Magellanic penguin colonies and is
of great importance for sea birds and mammals. Golfo San Jorge

BI-OCEANIC PEACE PARK

Río Deseado

Regarding the EEZ, we dream to create the first bi-oceanic marine

protected area in the world. The Patagonic Bi-Oceanic Corridor would cover
the waters from the already announced Cape Horn MPA in Chile, to the
Parque Nacional Monte León
Burdwood Bank MPA, including the Blue Whale Sanctuary and the future
Yaganes MPA.

HIGH SEAS

FInally, we want to get involved in the protection of the high seas, beyond
the 200 mile, taking advantage of the international debate about this subject
PENINSULA MITRE
that is being leaded by the UN. The waters beyond Argentine jurisdiction
are hotspots for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, as well as Parque Nacional Marino
Namuncu rá- Burdwoo d 2
transhipment. We believe it is necessary to act upon this problem that is
seriously depleting Argentine marine resources and destroying the
ecosystem. Parque Nacional Marino Yaganes
“Flourishing human communities, one of our great hopes, in the long run, can only exist if Earth’s living
systems are whole and healthy.”
Kristine Tompkins.