We’re almost at the halfway mark.
We need your help to finish this new park.

Conservacion Patagonica’s rapid progress to acquire land, implement restoration programs, build infrastructure, and develop public support for the future Patagonia National Park is a reflection of a great team of people and good planning and we’re proud of it. We are on budget and on schedule to create a grand new protected area in the Chacabuco Valley. But there is much work yet to be done. Those of you who are supporters of the project, we hope that you’ll stick with us and continue to support us as you have in the past. Those new to Conservacion Patagonica, we humbly ask you to become a supporter of this exciting effort. Sometimes even spectacular places require great struggle to preserve. Grand Canyon National Park took nearly forty years to be protected in its current form. Grand Teton National Park took even longer. Today we can’t imagine that these places could be anything but national parks, yet they were not inevitable. It took tremendous commitment by conservationists to save them. We can’t wait forty years. More importantly, the habitat and wildlife can’t hold out that long. We estimate that the future Patagonia National Park, a world-class natural area in one of the wildest places left on Earth, will cost $55 million dollars. This is not a trivial sum and we know it requires a great effort, but it is achievable!
 
 

Twenty million dollars have already been raised to acquire land, fund years of restoration work, wildlife programs, educational programs, and infrastructure. Our fund drive is now focused on raising the $35 million necessary to finish this park in the next eight years. Future generations will surely look back and consider it a remarkable bargain! The park’s wild character will live on long after we are gone. Being part of this campaign to create a living legacy of wildness, health, and natural beauty is an extraordinary opportunity. It is a privilege to do something truly meaningful that has enduring value.

Please join us in the effort to build
the Patagonia National Park.



“I’m part of the effort to create Patagonia
National Park because it is the best example of
what we can do to restore, then permanently conserve,
key wildlands. To buy up failed, overgrazed ranches,
remove the fences, give the land a rest and create a
national park and then donate it to the people
of Chile is a winning plan for both the people
of Chile and the natural world.”
—Yvon Chouinard
 
 
 
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