A Mission to Rewild the Earth with Kris McDivitt Tompkins
Kristine McDivitt Tompkins is on a mission to reorient the trajectory of life on Earth. Over three decades, Tompkins has protected over 14 million acres of land, 30 million acres of sea and created or expanded 15 national parks. Join NatureBridge Board Chair Ian Yolles as he chats with Kris about how we all, as individuals and groups, have the power to build a more wild, beautiful and equitable world.
Our Speakers
Kristine McDivitt Tompkins #
Kristine McDivitt Tompkins is the president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, an American conservationist, and former CEO of Patagonia, Inc. For nearly thirty years, she has committed her career to protecting and restoring wild beauty and biodiversity by creating national parks, restoring wildlife, inspiring activism and fostering economic vitality as a result of conservation.
As the president of Tompkins Conservation, Kristine Tompkins oversees a multitude of projects rewilding the Americas. Having protected approximately 14.7 million acres of parklands in Chile and Argentina through Tompkins Conservation and its partners, Kristine and Douglas Tompkins, her late husband who died in 2015, are considered some of the most successful national park-oriented philanthropists in history.
Kristine Tompkins serves in various positions of global leadership in conservation, including as Chair of National Geographic Society’s Last Wild Places campaign. She was the first conservationist to be awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. In 2018 she was named the United Nations’ Global Patron for Protected Areas. Her 2020 TED Talk, "Let's Make the World Wild Again," has over two million views.