in 2017, tompkins conservation donated the last of the parks of the chilean state under the conditiontected as national parks. the chilean government also added to existing national parkland to create the route of parks, an area the size of switzerland. the tompkins donation was said to be the biggest private land donation to a country in world history. but it was not without controversy. i think that colonisation of territory in human history is absolutely discussed as it should be. there's no question about that. i don't think we can roll back the clock and hope that slavery didn't happen and that almost the entire globe was conquered by 11—5 imperialist countries. there's no question about that. i'm very proud of what we do because every hectare we have ever purchased goes right back to the people of the country. tragically, doug never saw the completion of the donation, passing away in 2015. a good friend of mine from new york city wrote to me just a few days after he died, and she said, "look, you have a choice here. you can be the long—suffering widow, or you can get out of bed

farm in doug botta coastalfarm in southern chile, and over 30 years, along with chris and the tompkins conservationght to million organ acres over argentina. re— welding came high on their agenda, repopulating the diverse range of species and had been critically imbalanced. the numbers of birds in chile have dropped significantly. in this valley, rerolling has raised numbers from dozen to around 70 so far. so, how does this fit into the ecosystem here? the changes here have brought new opportunities for local through tourism and a range of work, including for the traditional chilean cultural icon, the gaucho. dom danielle now helps monitor the native male deer. traditionally, they are horseman skilled at protecting cattle and sometimes hunting predators. but now, he has a wider review of the predators as an important part of the animal network. beeping today, he uses modern techniques to track the dears nearby. the signal is quite strong when you point the antenna that way. it is like one of those tv antennas from the 70s or 80s that you have on your roof. but it seems to be doing the job. 0h, yep,

in 2017, tompkins conservation donated the last of the parks of the chilean state under the conditionhink that colonisation of territory in human history is absolutely discussed as it should be. there's no question about that. i don't think we can rollback the clock and hope that slavery didn't happen and that...that almost the entire globe was conquered by four or five imperialist countries. there's no question about that. i'm very proud of what we do because every hectare we have ever purchased goes right back to the people of the country. tragically, doug never saw the completion of the donation, passing away in 2015. a good friend of mine from new york city wrote to me just a few days after he died, and she said, "look, you have a choice here. "you can be the long—suffering widow or you can get out of bed and go do these things." and she was right. i had — that was a conscious decision i was going to have to make. and so ijust thought, ok, let's go for it. and that's when i started trying to tie up everything, and within two years, we had them all donated. wow. and that was a lot