Wild Things
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In this week's episode, we travel to Latin America to hear from two of the world's most ambitious and outspoken eco-pioneers.
Kris Tompkins, the ex-CEO of Patagonia clothing, explains why she moved to South America in the early 1990s to embark on one of the biggest conservation projects of all time with her husband, Doug. Her story is one of unbridled ambition and untimely tragedy.
First, our own Rough Guides author Shafik Meghji travels to the Rara Avis Reserve in Costa Rica. Here, he meets the visionary Amos Bien, one of the founding fathers of "ecotourism" as we know it today.
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