American entrepreneur, environmentalist, adventurer, philanthropist, filmmaker, and farmer Douglas Rainsford Tompkins di*d in a kayaking accident. He established the Foundation for Deep Ecology and Tompkins Conservation in addition to launching the North Face Inc and co-founding Esprit.
Douglas Tompkins Di*d In A Kayaking Acc*dent In Chile
Douglas Tompkins, co-founder of the North Face outdoor company and a philanthropist who donated millions to environmental causes, has drown*d in southern Chile after an acc*dent on his kayak, as reported by The Guardian.
Tompkins, 72, was reportedly brought to a hospital in Coyhaique for treatment of extreme hypothermia on Tuesday after heavy winds flipped his adventure kayak while he was paddling across Lake General Carrera in Patagonia. He was rushed to the hospital in the state capital, but he passed away around six hours later.
The pioneering garment and equipment designer, who also co-founded the Esprit clothing business, had donated millions to national parks over the course of a quarter of a century. They protected almost two million acres of natural habitat in South America with the help of his wife, Kristine.
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Tompkins left his professional life and mansion in San Francisco for the wilderness of Patagonia in 1989. Tompkins spent months exploring the southern rainforests by foot and boat before embracing the deep ecology movement’s tenets and launching an aggressive campaign to preserve the area’s flora and fauna.Campaigning alongside coalitions of environmental activists, he fought to prevent developers from razing unspoiled forests, wetlands, and coastal plains in Chile and Argentina.
Tompkins wanted to curtail what he considered as environmentally harmful activities like salmon farming and logging, but he was frequently harassed by the Chilean government and clashed with economic interests.
In contrast, Chile’s former president and self-made billionaire Sebastián Pinéra (2010-2014) bought up a sizable piece of Chiloe island and transformed it into a conservation model. Pinéra, in contrast to his predecessors as president of Chile, praised Tompkins’s work. Take a peek at the official tweet with regard to de@th of Douglas Tompkins.
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Tompkins was asked about his legacy in one of his final interviews, which was published last month in Paula, a Chilean magazine. “People will walk on these lands,” he declared. “Don’t you think that’s more beautiful than a tomb?”
He was dogged in his pursuit of turning his property holdings into national parks even in the face of formidable opposition.
“It is pretty hard for a country to turn down a gift of 300,000 hectares,” he said in an interview in 2007. “In Argentina we had a big blow-up over the purchase of conservation lands … then we said to the ministries and to [then] President [Nestor] Kirchner, ‘Hey look guys. We are taking land from the private sector – sometimes buying it from foreigners – and giving it back to the state.’ That has a tendency to quell a lot of waters.”
Tompkins was quite critical of the United States, although he did defend its environmental philosophy. “Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation,” he remarked. “It is the best tradition and example of land conservation in the world. It goes back a long way. Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.”
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