Conservación Patagonia

David Bruce McMahan and Jim Pruitt, a resident of Fisher Island, held a fundraiser in February of 2007 for the Conservación Patagonica, a foundation headed by Kristine Tompkins, former CEO of the Patagonia Company. Dozens of Fisher Island and Miami residents attended the event and enjoyed cocktails and hor d'oeuvres while listening to presentations from the founders of the Conservación Patagonica and the Conservation Land Trust.

The mission of the Conservación Patagonica is to preserve intact ecosystems by acquiring and protecting privately owned wildlands, and ultimately returning these landholdings to the public domain for permanent protection in the form of national parks or reserves. The foundation's major focus for the next decade is to add to the 173,000 acres it first acquired in 2004 and to turn these once over-grazed lands into a national park that supports the full range of the region's biodiversity.

The Conservación Patagonica also supports the 155,000 acre Monte León National Park on the coast of Argentina and the 38,000 acres that comprise El Rincón, also in Argentina.