Conservacion y manejo de vicuñas en Santa Catalina, Jujuy. Un poryecto de cientificos y comunidades: Dialogos de saberes.

BIBIANA VILÁ

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Conferencia; COP Conferencia de las Partes ONU-CEPA; 2016

Naciones Unidas

In VICAM, we have been working, in the Aichi 1 and 2 targets , since our earliest days as a group. We not only research, but work for local communities to be aware of the value of biodiversity that surrounds them, especially cemelids. In the Andean altiplano, vicuñas are a wild species of enormous ecological, economic, and socio-cultural importance, and highly prized for the utility of their fine fleece. However, vicuñas were slaughtered in large numbers for centuries and their population massively decreased. In order to attain a recovery of numbers and their sustainable use, VICAM, a research group, has recovered, in consort with local Andean communities, an ancient prehispanic wildlife capture technique, the ?Chaku,? that enables shearing wool fiber from live vicuñas