Buy Now, and Save!. Frank Zeller.
by Zeller, Frank; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 39Environment. Publisher: World Watch, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Biological diversity | Environmental protection | Environmentalists | Forest conservation | Nature conservation | Philanthropists | Wilderness areas | Wildlife managementDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The U.S. millionaire couple Douglas and Kris Tompkins have just donated two new national parks to Chile and Argentina. So why do so many people there wish they would just go home? The answer is a complex blend of anti-American sentiment, local vested interests, and a cultural opinion gap on ecological philanthropy, the practice of buying up wilderness in order to save it. Local critics have vilified the couple as super-rich gringos who have joined Patagonia's land scramble along with other big-name foreigners, such as Ted Turner, George Soros, and Sylvester Stallone. As Doug and Kris Tompkins have created 11 wilderness parks covering more than 800,000 hectares, they have been accused of being American spies, buzzed by Chilean Air Force jets, and even threatened with death." (WORLD WATCH) This article illustrates "some of the successes and pitfalls of the buy/restore/conserve approach to saving wildlands, which has quietly grown into a multi-billion-dollar movement."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Buy Now, and Save!, July/Aug. 2005; pp. 24-29.
"The U.S. millionaire couple Douglas and Kris Tompkins have just donated two new national parks to Chile and Argentina. So why do so many people there wish they would just go home? The answer is a complex blend of anti-American sentiment, local vested interests, and a cultural opinion gap on ecological philanthropy, the practice of buying up wilderness in order to save it. Local critics have vilified the couple as super-rich gringos who have joined Patagonia's land scramble along with other big-name foreigners, such as Ted Turner, George Soros, and Sylvester Stallone. As Doug and Kris Tompkins have created 11 wilderness parks covering more than 800,000 hectares, they have been accused of being American spies, buzzed by Chilean Air Force jets, and even threatened with death." (WORLD WATCH) This article illustrates "some of the successes and pitfalls of the buy/restore/conserve approach to saving wildlands, which has quietly grown into a multi-billion-dollar movement."
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