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Activism Stories
![Mile for Mile](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/mileformile_martin_jq_0397_1920x2560-768x1024.jpg.webp)
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.
![The Fisherman’s Son](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/thefishermansson_johnson_jeff_2689_1920x2560-768x1024.jpg.webp)
Born and raised at Punta de Lobos, Ramón Navarro found his passion riding the biggest waves on the planet.
![Sea Of Miracles](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/seaofmiracles_hudson_k_0017_1920x2560-768x1024.jpg.webp)
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.
![Estado Salmonero](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/estadosalmonero_casado_d_0010_1920x2560-768x1024.jpg.webp)
In a nation known for its massive resource extraction, salmon farming is now bigger than all of Chile’s industries except copper mining.
![What I Fought For](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/whatifoughtfor_1920x2560-768x1024.jpg.webp)
Former Navy SEAL Josh Jespersen battles the destruction of wild places he served to protect.
![Corriendo para salvar una Cuenca (Run to Save a Watershed)](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/episode-1-tile-768x1024.jpg.webp)
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.
![Game Hawker](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/etzel-k-1588-cc-web-4x5-1-768x925.jpg.webp)
Shawn Hayes leads a life of devotion. For him, falconry is more than a deep partnership with raptors: it’s his life’s work.
![Episode 2: A Climate of Optimism](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/siadak-a-1131-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
![The Scale of Hope](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/burr-a-6267-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Molly Kawahata on climate, climbing and the fight for systemic change.
![Episode 4: Silence Isn’t Silent](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/pat-f22-soundofsilence-popup-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
![Episode 5: The Art of Activism](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ravassard-f-0042-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Italian fisherman Paolo Fanciulli had tried everything to stop illegal deep-sea trawlers from harming his beloved Mediterranean ecosystem, but nothing worked. That’s when he hatched the plan to place 10-ton marble sculptures on the ocean floor.
![Episode 6: We Are the Water](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/khandasilva-d-0001-cc-web-768x513.jpg.webp)
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
![Corazón Salado](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/casado-d-0076-cc-web-1600x1200-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Ramón Navarro joins the Kawésqar community on a journey to protect their ancestral waters in Chilean Patagonia.
![The Custodians](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/neumeier-a-0007-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x677.jpg.webp)
When the fish stop flourishing, a few local Scots take matters into their own hands, one seagrass bed at a time.
![L’arte dell’attivismo](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/art-of-activism-poster-vert-765x1020.jpg.webp)
To fight the bottom trawlers destroying his beloved Mediterranean Sea, an Italian fisherman realizes art can be the most powerful form of protest.
![For the Love of the Sea](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/for-love-of-sea-poster-vert-765x1020.jpg.webp)
A powerful solution to climate change lies just beneath the surface.