Cases / Protected area / relocation · Chile · 2018–2019
Tompkins Conservation donates land in Chile to state for two new national parks
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Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
Tompkins Conservation transferred 407,625 hectares of land it had bought in Chile to the state in 2019, for two new national parks. The sources reviewed do not give the purchase prices for that land.
What?
Tompkins Conservation donated land it had bought in Chile to the state, creating two national parks. MercoPress
Where?
Chile; land purchases also in Argentina MercoPress
When?
Donation transfer in 2019; reported by MercoPress in April 2019. MercoPress
Who?
Gained
- Government of Chile — Received the donated land for two new national parks MercoPress
Lost
None on recordHarmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Land was bought and then donated to the state.
6 of 6 questions answered from the record
What happened
The record, in order.
MercoPress reported in April 2019 that a Tompkins foundation donated about a million acres to Chile for two newly created national parks.
The area transferred in 2019 is recorded as 407,625 hectares, bought by Tompkins Conservation.
A UN Environment press release from 2018 linked about 400,000 hectares donated in Chile to a new park network of about 4.5 million hectares.
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Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: the purchase of roughly 900,000 hectares in Chile and Argentina for about US$275 million.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: a sovereignty dispute in Chile, and criticism from small farmers without land titles.
- None on record The sources reviewed do not give purchase prices for the 407,625 hectares transferred in 2019.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
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Press and investigations
- Tompkins Foundation donates Chile a million acres for two newly created national parksMercoPress · 2019-04-27
- UN Environment press release on a patron for protected areasUN Environment Programme · 2018
Connected cases
Related matters, and cases linked to this one through the same organisations, with the role each played in both.
- Chile's Decree-Law 701 planting subsidy raised tree cover but cut native forest Chile · 1974–2012
- Government of Chile (Government) — here: Received the donated land for national parks; there: Set and funded the planting subsidy under Decree-Law 701
- Petorca residents rely on tanker water as avocado orchards draw on scarce supply Chile · 1981
- Government of Chile (Government) — here: Received the donated land for national parks; there: Water Code legislator and 2022 reform