The development of public policies for the sustainable governance of Vicugna vicugna

CASTILLA M. CECILIA; GONZALES BENITO; LUNA PEDRO; FLORIT LUCAS; BUSTOS CABANILLAS MARCOS

Territory, Politics, Governance

Taylor & Francis

Año: 2020

2162-2671

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is a global policy for wildlife conservation which requires to set legal norms, and to build territorialities and adaptations in forms of governance. The history of the use of the Vicuña (Vicugna vicugna), an integral part of the biocultural heritage of the Argentinean Puna and its communities, has gone through two clear stages: one of protection and one of use. In the Puna of Argentina, Catamarca?s province has been adapting the Vicuña Conservation and Sustainable Use Plan since 2002 to the socio-ecological contexts that have been presented. Therefore, in this work we describe the dynamics of local conservation biopolitics that were necessary to apply to save this species in relation to the (i) scope and objectives of each normative instrument of the legal framework applied; (ii) Control of Poaching and Illegal Fiber Program; and (iii) distribution of goods: Fiber harvesting in Silvestry and Fiber Redistribution Program (PRF). For this, we address the public policies and actions that have been developed from this project, such as the decision-making of management techniques, through a description of the adaptive process that is reflected in the local normative instruments. The map of actors was performed, listing the social actors that contribute to the development of the activity and of the actors that receive the benefits (forms of distribution of the benefits). Finally, the management map consisted of an integration of the results of these processes and the trajectory of the implementation of the project. The availability of legal fiber in Catamarca has helped maintain the textile tradition and worldview around the Vicuña?s. It is the only project of live-capture for wool harvest in silvestry where local communities are financed by the provincial government, but the low people population rate in the and an unresolved land tenure system has produced a mixed model with participation of private and foreign enterprises. Given this, the Provincial state has also reacted by generating instances of support to the communities through corporate social responsibility. This can serve as a management model for the Vicuña in a context of public-community-private territory.