Live shearing free-ranging guanacos (Lama guanicoe) in Patagonia for sustainable use

Montes, Marisa; Carmanchahi, Pablo; Rey, Andrés; Funes, Martín

doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.05.008

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“…Fleece fiber prices ranges from US$80 to 120. Wild guanaco shearing represents a complementary income to husbandry in the Monte ranches (Montes et al, 2006). In Rio Negro, live shearing of wild guanacos has been carried out since 1993 (Carmanchahi and Marull, 2004) and around 7000 guanacos were sheared in only 7 farms in Rio Negro province (Carmanchahi, unpublished data).…”

Section: Fibermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Past, present and potential uses of native flora and wildlife of the Monte Desert

Vilela¹,

Bolkovic²,

Carmanchahi³

et al. 2009

Journal of Arid Environments

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Section: Fibermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since then, the commerce of hides was discontinued and strictly regulated (De Lamo, 1999Montes et al, 2006). In Argentina, a management plan for this species was recently developed, framed by a National Government decree that establishes the ways of use of the resource (Resolució n 477/06 de la SayDS).…”

Section: Legal Regulations For the Use Of Fauna Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Past, present and potential uses of native flora and wildlife of the Monte Desert

Vilela¹,

Bolkovic²,

Carmanchahi³

et al. 2009

Journal of Arid Environments

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“…We also propose a population monitoring protocol to detect temporal changes in guanaco population size. Such a protocol has the potential to be an important management tool for detecting further declines in guanaco populations due to unsustainable sheep ranching or potentially unsustainable ill-planned extraction of guanacos in Patagonia (Montes et al 2006;Rey et al 2009). …”

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Guanaco abundance and monitoring in Southern Patagonia: distance sampling reveals substantially greater numbers than previously reported

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Background: Guanacos (Lama guanicoe) are thought to have declined in Patagonia mainly as a result of hunting and sheep ranching. Currently accepted estimates of total population size are extrapolated from densities obtained through strip transects in local studies. We used road surveys (8,141 km) and distance sampling to estimate guanaco density and population size over major environmental gradients of Santa Cruz, a large region in southern Patagonia. We also calculated the survey effort required to detect population trends in Santa Cruz. Results: We found considerable spatial variation in density (1.1 to 7.4 ind/km

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“…National guidelines for guanaco conservation and productive exploitation (e.g., for wool) already exist (Iriarte 2000). Guanacos have proven to be economically valuable from a touristic perspective (Franklin et al 1997), and for meat (Skewes et al 2000) and wool production (Montes et al 2006;Irarrázabal 2008). In pre-Columbian times, camelids had a strong cultural and mythological importance among indigenous communities throughout the Andean region (Garrido Escobar 2010).…”

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Phoenix flagships: Conservation values and guanaco reintroduction in an anthropogenic landscape

Lindon

Root‐Bernstein

2014

Ambio

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Multiple forms of valuation contribute to public acceptance of conservation projects. Here, we consider how esthetic, intrinsic, and utilitarian values contribute to public attitudes toward a proposed reintroduction of guanaco (Lama guanicoe) in a silvopastoral system of central Chile. The nexus among landscape perceptions and valuations, support for reintroductions, and management of anthropogenic habitats is of increasing interest due to the proliferation of conservation approaches combining some or all of these elements, including rewilding and reconciliation ecology, for example. We assessed attitudes and values through an online questionnaire for residents of Santiago, Chile, using multiple methods including photo-montages and Likert scale assessments of value-based statements. We also combined the questionnaire approach with key informant interviews. We find strong support for the reintroduction of guanacos into the Chilean silvopastoral system ('espinal') in terms of esthetic and intrinsic values but less in terms of utilitarian values. Respondents preferred a scenario of espinal with guanacos and expressed interest in visiting it, as well as support for the reintroduction project on the basis that guanacos are native to central Chile. We suggest that reintroduced guanacos could serve as a 'phoenix flagship species' for espinal conservation, that is, a flagship species that has gone regionally extinct and is known but not associated with the region in the cultural memory. We consider how the lack of local cultural identity can both help and weaken phoenix flagships, which we expect to become more common.

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Live shearing free-ranging guanacos (Lama guanicoe) in Patagonia for sustainable use

Cited by 23 publications

References 6 publications

Past, present and potential uses of native flora and wildlife of the Monte Desert

Past, present and potential uses of native flora and wildlife of the Monte Desert

Guanaco abundance and monitoring in Southern Patagonia: distance sampling reveals substantially greater numbers than previously reported

Phoenix flagships: Conservation values and guanaco reintroduction in an anthropogenic landscape

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