Patagonia National Park / Chacabuco Valley Grassland Restoration
The former Estancia Valle Chacabuco sheep and cattle ranch, degraded by roughly 80 years of overgrazing, was purchased and rewilded by Tompkins Conservation and is now managed as Patagonia National Park.
Image credit
Lago Jeinimeni Parque Nacional Patagonia. Location context only; not a photograph of project implementation.Location context · Natalia Reyes Escobar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2019 · Resized; display cropImage source ↗Licence ↗
OperatorFundación Rewilding Chile, with Tompkins Conservation and Conaf
EcosystemGrassland/rangeland
Standardnone (rewilding/restoration, not a carbon registry)
StatusActive
LocationChacabuco Valley, Aysén region, Chile (former Tamango and Jeinimeni reserves)
Overview
Inside the project
Fundación Rewilding Chile manages the park together with the government forestry agency Conaf, comprising the former Tamango and Jeinimeni Reserves and the Chacabuco Valley.
Restoration work has included removing more than 370 miles of fencing, native-grass reseeding by more than 750 volunteers, and species recovery for puma, condor, ñandú and the endangered huemul deer.
752,504 acres
Park area
206,983 acres
Donated by Tompkins Conservation
370+ miles
Fencing removed
750
Volunteers
Objectives
- Restore grassland degraded by decades of overgrazing
- Remove fencing and reseed native grasses
- Recover puma, condor, ñandú and huemul populations
Approach
- Grassland and rangeland restoration on former ranchland, combining fence removal, native reseeding and species reintroduction.
Sources
Inspect 2 sources
- rewildingchile.org ↗https://www.rewildingchile.org/en/projects/patagonia-national-park/
- tompkinsconservation.org ↗https://www.tompkinsconservation.org/explore/patagonia-national-park-chile/
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