Activism Stories
Ultrarunners Krissy Moehl, Jeff Browning and Luke Nelson run 106 miles through the newly opened Patagonia Park in Chile, to celebrate and highlight Conservacion Patagonica’s efforts to re-wild and protect this vast landscape.
Born and raised at Punta de Lobos, Ramón Navarro found his passion riding the biggest waves on the planet.
Snake River Salmon have been trucked, put on barges, diverted up fish ladders—all in the hope that enough would get by four dams to reach their historic habitat in numbers that would assure their future. It’s not working.
Industrial hemp is a crop that has the potential to lower the environmental impacts of textile production, empower small-scale farmers and create jobs in a wide variety of industries. Two non-profit groups, Fibershed and Growing Warriors, are working to reintroduce industrial hemp into Kentucky—and eventually U.S. agriculture.
The 35+ year resistance by a group of fisherman, farmers and activists to prevent the construction of a nuclear power plant that would threaten Japan’s Inland Sea.
Never Town explores Australia’s remote southern coastlines—and what surfers are willing to do to keep them wild.
In a nation known for its massive resource extraction, salmon farming is now bigger than all of Chile’s industries except copper mining.
Former Navy SEAL Josh Jespersen battles the destruction of wild places he served to protect.
Trail runner and activist Felipe Cancino takes us on a 120 km run through the Maipo River Valley—revealing along the way the impacts of the Alto Maipo hydropower project on the local ecosystem, its communities and traditions; and the threat it poses to the water supply of Santiago’s 7.1 million residents.
Shawn Hayes leads a life of devotion. For him, falconry is more than a deep partnership with raptors: it’s his life’s work.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
Ramón Navarro joins the Kawésqar community on a journey to protect their ancestral waters in Chilean Patagonia.
When the fish stop flourishing, a few local Scots take matters into their own hands, one seagrass bed at a time.
