Working Together To Make The World Wild Again
A new, once-in-a-lifetime conservation experience is launching in Argentina's Iberá National Park, hosted by Kristine Tompkins in partnership with Journeys With Purpose. The trip will explore why and how we all need to work together to protect, conserve and restore our natural world, and safeguard our own future.
It's the first in a series of new immersive Hosted Experiences by Journeys With Purpose to help people re-engage with nature. Led by extraordinary leaders within conservation, they take travellers on an educational journey to sensational places, to meet inspirational people working on transformative projects.
These trips focus on biodiversity restoration, climate change mitigation and local engagement. They demonstrate how communities can thrive and prosper, through the correct conservation and promotion of their 'green gold' of wildlife and natural habitats. Based on a “Seven Worlds, One Planet” approach, they are a global curriculum designed around the recovery and conservation of our natural world, with opportunities to participate and collaborate on restoring vibrant landscapes, biodiversity, wildlife and livelihoods across our seven continents.
Guests joining this first exclusive experience to Argentina with Kristine will learn about the history, challenges and successes of a truly remarkable landscape-scale restoration and rewilding journey. As an American conservationist, former CEO of Patagonia, and President and Co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, Kristine, alongside her late husband Douglas Tompkins, has spent nearly thirty years conserving and rewilding vast areas of the world. Together, they purchased more than 2 million acres of land in Chile and Argentina to restore it to wilderness.
“Rewilding can be a controversial term and has a range of definitions,” says Duncan Grossart, Founder & Managing Director of Journeys With Purpose. “In outline, it means to return an environment to its natural state, for example by bringing back wild plants and animals that used to live there, and to continue to protect that environment with minimal or no external management. In the wetlands of Iberá in Argentina, this requires the reintroduction of jaguars and giant river otters, together with high levels of commitment from local people.“
“At Journeys With Purpose our goal is to demonstrate how everything is connected and put concepts around conservation into a global context. It’s hoped that by experiencing these remarkable achievements of harmonising nature and communities, we can be inspired to protect, conserve and restore our natural world, and safeguard our own future,” added Duncan.
The Conservation Experience at Iberá National Park, Argentina trip costs from $14,125pp (limited to 12 guests). Bookings are through Satopia Travel, the carefully-chosen partner of Journeys With Purpose. If Covid-related travel restrictions remain in place, a ‘Book With Confidence’ policy offers alternative dates or a full refund. Please enquire via the Journeys With Purpose [or Satopia Travel] website to check the available dates for the Hosted Experience with Kristine Tompkins.
