‘The Pioneers take the arrows, the settlers take the land’.

Dave found this quote the other day, by Amory Lovins, on his fantastic Rocky Mountain Institute website. We’re feeling a bit like that the pioneers at the moment! We’re pretty sure no one has done anything like the 5000 mile project before. We’re going to have to shed a lot of tears and sweat; nurture some …

Saving 2 million acres of wilderness

Since arriving in Chile in April 2011, we had heard a lot about one couple, Douglas and Kristine Tompkins. Together they have conserved over 2 million acres of wilderness in Chile and Argentina through their respective organisations; The Conservation Land Trust and Conservacion Patagonica, more than any other private individuals. Buying land, to solely conserve it, was …