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

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.

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