🍃 Heard about this national park at ‘the end of the world’?

At the southern tip of the Americas, where wind and ocean shape the land, Chile is doing something powerful.

It’s creating a new national park.

The proposed Cape Froward National Park will protect around 150,000 hectares of subantarctic forests, peatlands, and rugged coastline, some of the most intact ecosystems left on the planet.

This region was once used for industry and extraction.

Now it’s being protected as a refuge for endangered species like wild pumas, huemul deer, and whales.

What makes this story especially hopeful is how it’s happening.

Rewilding Chile donated more than 127,000 hectares of land to the government, with one condition: that it becomes a permanent national park.

Once complete, Cape Froward will form the final link in a 2,800-kilometre wildlife corridor across southern Chile, giving nature the space it needs to recover and adapt.

This is long term thinking done right.

Not reacting to loss, but preventing it.

Source: Coming soon: a national park at ‘the end of the world’

Best,
Jasper