🇨🇱Chile

Carries on the Tompkins legacy by creating national parks and rewilding Chilean Patagonia.

Chile holds more than 80% of South America's glaciers, and this citizen-founded foundation is racing to get them taught in schools and written into law before they vanish.

Chile zoned this bay for the industry nobody wanted anywhere else, then acted surprised when schoolchildren started collapsing — so the mothers took the phrase 'sacrifice zone' and made it the state's problem.

More than 200 underwater mountains run from the Chilean coast out to Rapa Nui, carrying species found nowhere else — and three-quarters of the chain sits in international waters with no protection at all.

Collects discarded fishing nets and recycles them into NetPlus, a raw material used by global brands.

Born out of the 2011-12 Torres del Paine wildfire, this Chilean foundation now runs the country's largest restoration campaign, planting native trees and rebuilding green space after each new round of megafires.

A Patagonian research foundation's whale science helped Chile create a 100,000-hectare marine park protecting one of the Southern Hemisphere's last blue whale feeding grounds.

A German-founded conservation group backs Chilean and Peruvian rescue centres, colony censuses and fishing communities working to save the Humboldt penguin from extinction.

On an island where wells run dry each summer, the spongy pompón moss bogs are the water supply — so Chiloé's naturalists got them written into law as nature sanctuaries.