Chile already has some 45,000 square kilometers of national parks
Chili advances, takes firm steps in its commitment to care for the environment and, after signing a series of decrees, has created the ** Network of National Parks of Patagonia .**
Altogether, some 45,000 square kilometers , compared to 41,285 in Switzerland , which represents an increase of 38.5% on the surface of national parks and reach a 81.1% of total protected areas in the country.
This network is a sum of already protected areas, others pending annexation and the rest provided by private entities.
The measure represents an increase of 38.5% in the area of the parks
This is the case for approximately 4,000 square kilometers , from the donation of land made by the ** Tompkins Conservation .**
This is the organization created 25 years ago by the founder of the North Face brand, Douglas Tompkins, and his wife Kristine with the aim of acquiring territories, preserving them and, later, donating them to the park system and thus guaranteeing their maximum level of conservation. .
“From now The State of Chile has the duty to value, preserve and enhance the natural wealth of Patagonia. And it must do so in accordance with high international standards”, highlighted the President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, at the signing ceremony of the decrees to materialize the creation of the Network of National Parks of Patagonia.
"In other words, it is a country as a whole that assumes the commitment that previously fell to a few visionaries. It is a country as a whole that wins by cementing concrete routes for sustainable development”, she pointed out.
This represents the culmination of the commitment that Bachelet and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, current president and CEO of the organization, acquired in March 2017 by which they sought to create a network of five new national parks in the country and expand another three explains the Tompkins Conservation in a statement.
The hard part is going to be deciding where to start discovering them