Implementing Partners
CONAF
CONAF is Chile’s Forestry Corporation and the authority that oversees national park management. The Legacy Fund collaborates with CONAF day in and day out to advance shared conservation and visitor management goals. Under a formal agreement of mutual collaboration, signed in early 2017, the two agreed to jointly prioritize, plan, co-fund, and implement projects undertaken in Torres del Paine National Park.
This critical partnership leverages technical and financial resources for maximum impact, ensures alignment with local priorities and realities, and promotes education and knowledge exchange with volunteers, visitors, park rangers, and the broader conservation community.
Recognizing the value and importance of such relationships to protected area management, CONAF and the Legacy Fund expanded their agreement to cover all protected areas of Magallanes in January 2019. The team looks forward to continuing this collaboration to advance sustainable tourism in Torres del Paine and beyond in the years to come.
Conservation VIP
Conservation VIP is a US-based nonprofit organization that organizes conservation-based service trips for organizations around the world. Alongside the Legacy Fund, they have invested significantly in the trail system and infrastructure of Torres del Paine, collaborating with us on the construction of a 10km trail between the Paine Grande and Italiano campgrounds, and investing heavily in suspension bridges in various sectors of the park including Grey and the French River.
The Legacy Fund and Conservation VIP ensure their volunteer groups coincide and work together in the park. This experience, which we have carried out each year for the past 4 years, is an invaluable cultural exchange between Chilean Legacy Fund volunteers, park rangers, and the international visitors that work in the park with Conservation VIP.
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