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Iberá Rewilding / Wetlands Restoration

Begun in 1997 when Tompkins Conservation acquired the 11,400-hectare San Alonso Ranch in Corrientes Province, the Iberá restoration programme has grown into what its operator calls the largest wetlands restoration project in the Southern Cone.

Corrientes Province (Iberá wetlands), ArgentinaWetlands and grasslandnone (rewilding/restoration programme, not a carbon registry)
OperatorFundación Rewilding Argentina (successor to Conservation Land Trust / Tompkins Conservation's Argentina programme)
EcosystemWetlands and grassland
Standardnone (rewilding/restoration programme, not a carbon registry)
StatusActive
LocationCorrientes Province (Iberá wetlands), Argentina
Overview

Inside the project

Land donations culminated in the creation of Iberá National Park in 2018 and further expansions since.

Species reintroductions have brought back pampas deer, collared peccaries, giant anteaters, macaws and, from 2021, jaguars absent from the region for more than 70 years; by 2024 the foundation reports 33 jaguars living across Iberá.

11,400 ha
Initial San Alonso Ranch acquisition (1997)
700,000+ ha
Greater Iberá Park (Argentina's largest protected area)
33
Jaguars living across Iberá (2024)

Objectives

  • Restore wetlands and grasslands in the Iberá region
  • Reintroduce locally extinct species, including jaguars

Approach

  • Land acquisition, wetland restoration and species reintroduction, run by Fundación Rewilding Argentina, successor to Tompkins Conservation's Argentina programme.

Sources

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  1. rewildingargentina.org ↗https://rewildingargentina.org/who-we-are/

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