Millionaire Saves Planet by buying large chunks of Argentina, Chile
The American multimillionaire who founded the North Face and Esprit clothing lines says he is trying to save the planet by buying bits of it.
First Douglas Tompkins purchased a huge chunks of southern Chile, and now he’s hoping to save the northeast wetlands of neighboring Argentina. He has snapped up more than half a million acres (200,000 hectares) of the Esteros del Ibera, a vast Argentine marshland teeming with wildlife.
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