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Freedom to Roam, our long-term initiative, is dedicated to establishing migration wildways for animals between protected areas. Patagonia’s partners in Freedom to Roam include other companies, conservation organizations and recreation groups.

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Female pronghorn on Cora Butte, part of the herd of 300 migrating from Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Photo: Joe Riis

What We Do

We acknowledge that the wild world we love best is disappearing. That is why those of us who work here share a strong commitment to protecting undomesticated lands and waters. We believe in using business to inspire solutions to the environmental crisis. Learn more

Voice Your Choice™
Visitors to Patagonia stores cast their ballots in our second-annual Voice Your Choice™ campaign. Together, they helped us decide how to distribute $5,000 in grant money to local environmental organizations.

Stop by your local store to find out more about which three environmental groups in your area won support from the Voice Your Choice™ campaign this year, and find out how you can help support environmental work in your own backyard. Check with your local Patagonia store for details.
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Creating the Future Patagonia National Park
Conservacion Patagonica, a non-profit organization dedicated to protection of wildland ecosystems and biodiversity in the Patagonia region of Chile and Argentina, is working towards the goal of creating Patagonia National Park, a world-class park similar in size to Yosemite National Park in California.
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Environmental Grants

We give at the grassroots level to innovative groups overlooked or rejected by other corporate donors. We fund activists who take radical and strategic steps to protect habitat, wilderness and biodiversity. We have given more than $38 million to more than 1,000 organizations since our grants program began.
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The Conservation Alliance
The Conservation AlliancePatagonia co-founded The Conservation Alliance in 1989, with the goal of encouraging companies in the outdoor industry to support environmental organizations in their efforts to protect threatened wildlands. To date the groups funded have saved over 34 million acres of wildlands and 14 dams have been either prevented or removed - all through grassroots community efforts. Learn more

1% For The Planet®
Member 1%In the same vein as The Conservation Alliance, 1% For The Planet provides the motivation for any business – large or small – to donate at least 1% of their annual net revenues to environmental organizations worldwide. To date, members include restaurants, musicians, wineries, graphic design and advertising firms, to name just a few.
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Grist.org
GristWant to know more about current environmental issues and how you can take action? Check out Grist.org, one of our favorite sources for enviro news.

Grist.org is the country’s leading source for environmental news and commentary, served up with a touch of humor. Grist features in-depth reporting, feisty opinions, sage advice, cutting-edge arts and culture reviews, and more.

Wild & Scenic Environmental Film FestivalWild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is a product of environmental grant recipients, the South Yuba River Citizens League. Together with Patagonia, SYRCL uses the Wild & Scenic festival to bring compelling environmental films to a nationwide audience with the shared goal of inspiring environmental solutions in their home watershed and in host communities.
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Issues

Visions of the Arctic
This year, we’re collaborating with Earthjustice and renowned photographer, Florian Schulz to protect the Arctic wilderness. Arctic wildlife and wild lands need our help now!
Oceans as Wilderness
As we teach ourselves how close the connection is between the vitality of human life and the marine environment, we can all become better stewards of the ocean in our daily lives.

Recent Essays

What Would Darwin Think?
By Kristine McDivit Tompkins
Early Fall 2010
The Idaho Tide
Steven Hawley
Summer 2010
Crowd Power
by Gerry Lopez
Surf 2010
Lessons Learned
by Mickey Muñoz
Surf 2010
Harbor Construction
by Josh Berry
Surf 2010
Heavy Industry

Surf 2010
Real Estate

Surf 2010
Coastal Roads

Surf 2010
The One Thing Wolverines Can't Take On
by Douglas H. Chadwick
Spring 2010
Finding Space for Tule Elk
by Michael Fay
Winter 2008

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Footprint Chronicles

Footprint Chronicles®

We’ve been tracking the impact of Patagonia goods from design to distribution. See what we’ve learned so far.
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We believe in using business to inspire solutions to the environmental crisis. Our employees work here because they love wild places and the sports and travel that take them there. Patagonia is committed to the environment; sustaining the natural world sustains us. We support hundreds of environmental groups, publish environmental essays, educate about environmental issues and encourage peaceful environmental activism.
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