Qualla: Ibera National Park https://qualla.com/ibera-national-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/p/2/ibera-national-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ibera National Park https://qualla.com/ibera-national-park Ibera National Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/ibera-national-park/ Photo credit Joshua Stone, CC BY-SA 3.0. The jaguar cubs born in Ibera have never seen a human without a fence between them. That is the point. Inside large enclosures in the Argentine wetlands, young jaguars learn to hunt live prey -- capybara, caiman, whatever moves through the marsh grass -- so that when the gates open, they can survive on their own. No jaguar had walked these wetlands for decades. Now they do, because a man who made his fortune selling outdoor clothing decided to buy cattle ranches and give them back to the wild.

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/p/2/ibera-national-park-wp/6ep2-ibera-national-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ibera National Park: The Scale of Water https://qualla.com/ibera-national-park/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 2.0. The Ibera Wetlands in northeastern Argentina's Corrientes Province rank among the largest wetland systems on Earth. Within them, Ibera National Park -- created by an act of the Argentine Congress on December 5, 2018 -- adjoins the 5,530 square kilometer Ibera Provincial Park. Tog...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/p/2/ibera-national-park-wp/6ep2-ibera-national-park-the-scale-of-water.mp3 0:06 2 full Ibera National Park: A Clothier's Second Act https://qualla.com/ibera-national-park/ Photo credit Joshua Stone, CC BY-SA 3.0. The park exists because of Doug and Kristine Tompkins. Doug, the co-founder of The North Face and later Esprit, began acquiring former cattle ranches in the Ibera region in 1997 through the Conservation Land Trust-Argentina. The vision was radical by any measure: buy degraded ran...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/p/2/ibera-national-park-wp/6ep2-ibera-national-park-a-clothiers-second-act.mp3 0:06 3 full Ibera National Park: Bringing Back the Lost https://qualla.com/ibera-national-park/ Photo credit Joshua Stone, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 2007, Tompkins Conservation launched what may be South America's most ambitious rewilding program. Working with nonprofit partners -- and later through the offspring organization Rewilding Argentina -- the team began reintroducing species that had vanished from the region duri...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/p/2/ibera-national-park-wp/6ep2-ibera-national-park-bringing-back-the-lost.mp3 0:06 4 full Ibera National Park: When Fire Came https://qualla.com/ibera-national-park/ Photo credit Joshua Stone, CC BY-SA 3.0. In January and February 2022, wildfires burned nearly sixty percent of the park. At least one blaze was ignited by lightning, but many started on neighboring cattle ranches where fire is a traditional land-management tool. A two-and-a-half-year drought had left the marshes unusua...

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