Corcovado National Park
Just to the south of Pumalin, Corcovado National Park (Chile) represents one of Tompkins' completed conservation projects. In 1994 The Conservation Land Trust, along with U.S. philanthropist Peter Buckley, acquired 208,000 acres (840 km2) of native forest that was slated for logging, adjacent to vast areas of federal land, under the jurisdiction of the Chilean Armed Forces. CLT offered to donate this parcel back to the Chilean state, provided that the whole area became a national park. In 2005, then-President Lagos accepted this proposal, and the 726,000-acre (2,940 km2) Corcovado National Park was born.
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