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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Sat Jan 23, 2016, 08:56 PM Jan 2016

North Face's Douglas Tompkins: Chile offered land by widow

Source: BBC News

North Face's Douglas Tompkins: Chile offered land by widow
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Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, widow of late American conservationist Doug Tompkins, met Chile's President Michelle Bachelet
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Talks have begun between Chile and the widow of an American billionaire, Douglas Tompkins, over the donation of a vast nature reserve in southern Chile.

Kristine McDivitt Tompkins discussed the donation with Chile's President Michelle Bachelet.

She said she had formally offered Chile 400,000 hectares of land in Patagonia to be made into national parks. The negotiations are expected to take two years.

Mr Tompkins, who died in December in a kayaking accident, caused controversy in the 1990s by buying up land in southern Chile and Argentina to preserve it.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35393932

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North Face's Douglas Tompkins: Chile offered land by widow (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2016 OP

He mostly bought up land from private landowners Igel Jan 2016 #1

I wish I could do the same n/t vkkv Jan 2016 #2

Igel

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1. He mostly bought up land from private landowners

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jan 23, 2016, 09:04 PM

Jan 2016

and gave it to the government to preserve it.

The first part in the subject line created resentment on the part of those who didn't bother to finish the sentence.

Hypervigilance can promote foolishness and stupidity. "Big bad gringo buying up land" causes the ol' adrenals to shut down the prefrontal cortex entirely for some people, transferring control to the "reptilian" brain (silly expression, but there you have it).

vkkv

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2. I wish I could do the same n/t

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jan 23, 2016, 10:00 PM

Jan 2016

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