Profile: Environmentalist Kris Tompkins
Americas Now
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8m 25s
Patagonia for over 20 years -Kris Tompkins gave it all back to Chile and Argentina, countries that had expanded their national parks. Correspondent Joel Richards profiled the woman behind one of the largest land donations in history.
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