Local participation in vicuna management

STOLLEN, K. A.,; RENAUDEAU D ARC, N; LICHTENSTEIN, G

The vicuña: the theory and practice of community based Wildlife management

Springer

Lugar: Nueva York; Año: 2009; p. 81 - 96

Vicuña management projects and programmes developed in the Andes follow the logic of the community-based conservation (CBC) paradigm . This paradigm emerged, in the past two decades, as a strategy to link conservation and community development through local participation and sustainable use. In the case of community-based conservation of vicuña, the assumption is that commercial utilization of vicuña fibre, obtained from live-shorn animals will generate sufficient benefits to outweigh the burden of conservation and contribute to community development, thus encouraging local people to become partners in conservation. This chapter explores the meaning of participation in vicuna management projects along the Andean region.