INSPIRATION

As the current president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation and the former CEO of Patagonia, Inc., Kristine left the business world to protect wild beauty and biodiversity by creating national parks, restoring wildlife, inspiring activism, and fostering economic vitality as a result of conservation.

Scotland was once covered in thick forest, it was an undulating wilderness teeming with wild lynx, wolves, and bears. Hunted and persecuted, these natural predators entered extinction hundreds of years ago.

Rewilding – The Return of the Macaw. For many Central and South American tribes consider the macaw to bring healing through light and colour. The Inga tribe in Colombia hold it sacred and the Bororo tribe in Brazil view it as a messenger of gods and ancestors. And…