A year after conservationist Douglas Tompkins died in a kayaking accident in Chile, his most important Argentine project has begun to culminate with the donation of prized wetlands to Argentina’s National Parks Administration (APN). The Conservation Land Trust—a foundation that Tompkins, a U.S. clothing entrepreneur, started in 1992—transferred 23,000 conserved hectares (57,000 acres) of northeastern Argentina’s enormous Esteros del Iberá wetlands to the parks agency on Nov. 6. It was the first of four handovers slated to occur over three years in a process under which a total of 150,000 hectares (370,000 acres) will be transferred to the government to form part of a future national park. Tompkins began buying up acreage in 1997 in the Esteros del Iberá, which is located in... [Log in to read more]