How One Woman Protected Millions of Acres

You probably heard about the recent devastating wildfires in Ibera. A visit with Kristine Tompkins who has conserved more land there than any other single individual, calling it “capitalist jiujitsu” for the planet.

The first thing Kristine McDivitt Tompkins had to do when she arrived in Chile more than three decades ago was tear down fences. Demolishing 700 kilometers of barbed wire in the rough terrain that she and her husband bought was back-breaking work, but overcoming barriers in the minds of the locals was much harder. “We were accused of being spies!”…