and as you can see behind me, the road is pretty rough. we ve hit one of these huge potholes, and i guess that s part of the story of tourism here. you know, the infrastructure is still a work in progress, but fortunately all the locals are being super helpful. for two american philanthropists, doug and chris tompkins, the root of parks was just one part of a decades long project in both chile and argentinean patagonia. over the course of 30 years, doug, chris and the tompkins conservation organization bought two million acres of land across chile and argentina. i am very proud of what we do because every hectare we have ever purchased goes right back to the people of the country. if you want to conserve a territory and bring back species who ve gone toward a point where their numbers are quite low,
so we re approaching the deer from a lower ground angle so we don t scare them. it s unbelievable that now the numbers have grown and we ve been able to track them within the space of a quarter of an hour. and here we are and we re able to get this close to them. doug tompkins sadly never
donation in history to create a conservation project on a vast scale. myjourney to its heart takes me six hours in a 4x4. so we ve blown a tyre, and as you can see behind me, the road is pretty rough. we ve hit one of these huge potholes, and i guess that s part of the story of tourism here. you know, the infrastructure is still a work in progress, but fortunately all the locals are being super helpful. for two american philanthropists, doug and kris tompkins, the route of parks was just one part of a decades long project in both chile and argentinean patagonia. over the course of 30 years, doug, chris and the tompkins conservation 0rganization bought two million acres of land across chile and argentina.
doug tompkins sadly never saw his plan with kris finalised, as he passed 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. ihad. 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 of work. and i think it saved my life, needing to do that. yeah. i think there s a tremendous
on a vast scale. myjourney to its heart takes me six hours in a 4x4. so, we ve blown a tire and, as you can see behind me, the road is pretty rough. we ve hit one of these huge potholes, and i guess that s part of the story of tourism here. you know, the infrastructure is still a work in progress, but fortunately, all the locals are being super helpful. for two american philanthropists, doug and kris tompkins, the route of parks was just one part of a decades long project in both chile and argentinean patagonia. over the course of 30 years, doug, kris and the tompkins conservation 0rganization bought two million acres of land across chile and argentina. i am very proud of what we do because every hectare we have ever